At Kandahar Airfield, Rocket Attacks Part Of Life -- CTV News
The Canadian Press
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Sirens announcing Taliban rocket attacks have sent thousands of soldiers and civilians at the headquarters of Canada's Afghan mission scurrying to shelters six times over the past eight days.
Several injuries resulted from the recent blasts, but the officer in charge of base security says the attacks don't represent a new level of threat to the base and maintains that the hundreds of rockets lobbed into Kandahar Airfield over the past three years haven't affected its operations -- or its safety.
"We are under a degree of threat," said Air Commodore Andy Fryer of Britain's Royal Air Force, in charge of base security. "But when you compare it other areas, the threat here is considerably less."
The wailing call of the rocket attack alert is a fact of life at the base.
The sirens come at any time -- afternoon, evening or the small hours of the morning. When they do, everyone is expected to seek shelter until the Joint Defence Operations Centre gives the OK.
"This is the J-DOC," boom loudspeakers everywhere on the base. "All clear. All clear."
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My Comment: What a way to live. Unfortunately, there will come a day when a rocket attack will be lucky and there will be a great loss of life.