Missouri Guard agriculture team reports no fatalities after attack

Monday, April 16, 2012

The Missouri National Guard Agribusiness Development Team VI is reporting no fatalities or life-threatening injuries after an attack on the forward operating base where they are stationed in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province.

Missouri National Guard adjutant general, Maj. Gen. Stephen L. Danner, has ensured the Resiliency and Family Support teams are working to assist the unit's families in Missouri. All families have been contacted by the Missouri National Guard and have information on their soldier or airman. Gov. Jay Nixon also has been briefed about the attack.

The approximately 55 soldiers and airmen of Missouri Agribusiness Development Team VI recently arrived in Afghanistan after pre-mobilization training at Camp Clark, Mo. and Camp Atterbury, Ind. Their mission is to help agricultural reconstruction and development in Nangarhar Province.

Afghan officials have blamed the brazen series of weekend attacks on the Haqqani militant network, saying Monday that fighters captured in the assault claimed they were affiliated with the insurgent faction tied to the Taliban and al-Qaida.

The 18-hour offensive left 36 insurgents and 11 others dead and was the largest in Kabul since insurgents fired on the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters last September. That attack also was also blamed on the Haqqani network, which commands the loyalties of an estimated 10,000 fighters and is considered one of the most lethal threats to NATO in Afghanistan.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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herewego 1 year, 1 month ago

Remind me again why we're still there. Let's see, we buy oil from them @ $100 + a barrel, then we sell them grain at $5 a sack... How about we raise the price of grain to 100 a sack.... Some will say that this will take food out of children's mouths... How about all the high gas prices taking food off all of our plates, because we spend so much of our wages just getting to work to earn it!.... Bring our boys home-- N O W...

asb 1 year, 1 month ago

The Afghans have no oil. We only pay high dollar for energy if we use it. But yes, bring the troops home as soon as possible, we got the rat, now learn from history and leave Afghanistan with as much grace as we can muster, they want us out, we want out, doh!

CommonSense4US 1 year, 1 month ago

Thank God our boys (and girls) are ok! They're doing a tough job and need all our support. They also need leadership that does the right thing at all times, and when it finds leaders who won't, then get rid of them. We don't need our heros killed because we have bad leaders.

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