More details are appearing, no doubt some are inspired as I doubt if any media in Camp Bastion will upset their handlers.
In particular I refer to Christina Lamb's in The Sunday Times (UK, behind a pay-wall), but reproduced in The Australian and fully accessible via Google:http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226479699623
She reports that:Prior to the attack the base's remote position was often cited as part of the security advantage, so when she reveals:A local Taliban commander who gave his name as Abdul Bari told The Sunday Times that planning began a month ago when a senior Haqqani network officer asked for 20 volunteers to become suicide bombers. They were trained in Pakistan, he said.This passage does not sound right - from my armchair, ostensibly made by a suicide bomber in a high concrete wallA cement-mixing plant, lorry parks and a hotel for local workers were built just a few hundred yards from the camp's eastern fence, where the attack took place.A two-metre hole had been blasted high in the razor-wire-topped wall surrounding what was thought to be one of the most impregnable military camps on earth.
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