Battle of Wanat
{'<entity_0>': 'Battle of Wanat', '<entity_1>': '13 July 2008', '<entity_2>': 'Afghanistan', '<entity_3>': 'Nuristan', '<entity_4>': 'battle', '<entity_5>': 'Kunar'}
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The <entity_0> took place on <entity_1>, when around 200 Taliban insurgents attacked American troops stationed near Quam, in the Waygal district of <entity_2>'s far eastern <entity_3> province. Tamim Nuristani, former governor of <entity_3>, believed that numerous Taliban and Pakistani militant and terrorist groups banded together from surrounding regions including <entity_5> and the Bajaur tribal agency in neighboring Pakistan. According to U.S. intelligence, groups operating in the region included Taliban, al-Qaeda, Kashmir-based Lashkar-e-Taiba and Pakistan-based (as of 2013 still located in one of many strongholds in the Bajaur agency of F.A.T.A.-Federally administered Tribal areas in <entity_5> and <entity_3> of <entity_2>) Hezb-i-Islami. After the <entity_4>, Major General Jeffrey J. Schloesser, U.S. Army commander of coalition troops in Regional Command East, <entity_2>, decided to abandon the patrol base and sent additional U.S. troops to assist the base evacuation. Speaking at a Pentagon news conference after the attack, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Navy Admiral Mike Mullen said the incident indicated that "...all involved with operations on the (Pakistan-<entity_2>, especially the porous <entity_5>, Kashmir, and <entity_3>), border must do a better job of policing the region and eliminating the extremists' safe havens in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas that are launching pads for attacks on coalition forces."
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