Then, according to the U.S. military, a driver rammed a truck into concrete blast walls protecting the base.

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At sunset, a civilian truck loaded with troops rolled into the small Turkish army base.

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It was a somewhat rectangular loop that took us through deserts, mountains, forests, adobe villages, big cities, college towns, and nowhere truck stop areas where every bordering rusted RV seemed a home base for would-be Walters and Jesses cooking up their next batch of Blue Sky.

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Earlier in the day, a member of Nato forces was injured when a stolen truck was driven onto the runway at Camp Bastion, the main British military base in Afghanistan, as US defence secretary Leon Panetta was arriving at the site.

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