![]() ![]() A spokesperson for the governor of Khost said that “the KPF did not share the information from the blast with us.” The Afghan Ministry of the Interior and the Criminal Technique department in Kabul both said they had no documentation of the incident. Immediately following the attack, both the Afghan Army and the Khost police were denied access to the scene. Neither Washington nor the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan shared any information about the attack publicly or in response to requests. ![]() ![]() The attack killed four members of the Khost Protection Force, or KPF-a CIA-trained and equipped militia that maintains an iron grip on the province-as well as three Afghan soldiers and at least six civilians.īut neither local nor international media reported on the incident. Yet unlike the prior four big attacks on Camp Chapman, located northeast of the city of Khost, last December’s deadly assault went unreported and unacknowledged. Eleven years after one of the largest losses of life in CIA history at a notorious military base in southeastern Afghanistan, Camp Chapman was attacked again in early December, a seemingly blatant violation of the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement. ![]()
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