Camp Bastion is the main British military base in Afghanistan. Accommodating 28,000 people it is situated northwest of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province and is several square miles in size
Revealed: How Prince Harry Was Whisked To Camp Bastion Safe-House As US Marines Battled Taliban Suicide-Squad Who Infiltrated Base In Assassination Attempt -- Daily Mail
* September 2012 Camp Bastion raid was a Taliban raid that killed two United States Marine Corps (USMC) service personnel and destroyed or severely damaged eight aircraft
* The total cost to the United States military was $200 million
* The British base in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan was home to serving military officer Prince Harry
* The raid on the aircraft was also an assassination attempt on the Prince's life by the Taliban
Prince Harry was frantically rushed into a heavily secured safe-house during the Camp Bastion raid of September 2012 as 15 heavily armed Taliban soldiers ran amok in the British base a new report claims.
The fourth-in-line to the British throne was serving at the base in Afghanistan when fighters dressed in U.S. Army uniforms unleashed a ground assault on September 14th and destroyed or damaged eight aircraft worth a total of $200 million.
Two U.S. Marines also lost their lives in the melee described as 'the worst loss of U.S. air-power in a single incident since the Vietnam War' and Captain Harry Wales, identified as a legitimate military target by the Taliban, survived the four hour battle that raged inside the base which had been thought to be impregnable.
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My Comment: The GQ article .... Enemy Inside the Wire: The Untold Story of the Battle of Bastion .... is a fascinating read. The link is here.
