U.K. Complacency Allowed U.S. Deaths at Base, Panel Says
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Inadequate defenses and high-level complacency in the British Army led to the success of a 2012 Taliban attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of U.S. Marines, a panel of U.K. lawmakers said.
Fifteen heavily armed Taliban insurgents infiltrated the base in September 2012 and attacked the airfield. In the ensuing battle, two Marines died and eight U.S. and eight U.K. personnel were wounded alongside a civilian.