Coalition: Afghan attackers wore US uniforms
Posted: 09/15/2012
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Coalition military authorities say the people who carried out the well-coordinated attack on a British airfield in southwestern Afghanistan on Friday, killing two U.S. Marines, wore U.S. Army uniforms and destroyed six Harrier fighter jets.
The coalition says about 15 "well equipped, trained and rehearsed" insurgents were involved.
Fourteen of the 15 were killed. One was captured
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