moderate libertarian
01-09-2012, 03:45 PM
There were mutiple similar incodences in past months, these incidences are becoming more frequent:
Afghan Soldier Kills American and Wounds 3 Others
Published: January 9, 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American military personnel while they were playing volleyball at a camp in southern Afghanistan, killing one and wounding three others before being fatally shot, the Afghan police said on Monday.
It was the third time in just over two weeks that a man wearing an Afghan Army uniform attacked NATO personnel. In the earlier cases, the Taliban claimed responsibility, although there was no immediate claim in this case that the Afghan soldier had Taliban sympathies.
The attack took place on Sunday afternoon in Qalat, the capital of Zabul Province. The Afghan soldier approached the volleyball game and appeared to watch the soldiers play before opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle, said Ghulam Jilani Farahi, deputy police chief of Zabul Province. Another American soldier who heard the firing shot and killed the attacker, he said.
In the first of the attacks last month, in late December an Afghan soldier opened fire on American soldiers in the western province of Farah during a joint patrol. Only the Afghan soldier was killed in that attack, which was preceded by an argument between the Afghans and the Americans.
A few days later, a man wearing an Afghan Army uniform gunned down two members of the French Foreign Legion in the east of the country before being fatally shot.
Separately, the bodies of four American service members killed in a roadside bombing last week in Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan were returned to the United States, The Associated Press reported. They were among eight NATO service members who were killed in three separate insurgent attacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/world/asia/afghan-soldier-kills-american-and-wounds-3-others.html
Afghan Soldier Kills American and Wounds 3 Others
Published: January 9, 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American military personnel while they were playing volleyball at a camp in southern Afghanistan, killing one and wounding three others before being fatally shot, the Afghan police said on Monday.
It was the third time in just over two weeks that a man wearing an Afghan Army uniform attacked NATO personnel. In the earlier cases, the Taliban claimed responsibility, although there was no immediate claim in this case that the Afghan soldier had Taliban sympathies.
The attack took place on Sunday afternoon in Qalat, the capital of Zabul Province. The Afghan soldier approached the volleyball game and appeared to watch the soldiers play before opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle, said Ghulam Jilani Farahi, deputy police chief of Zabul Province. Another American soldier who heard the firing shot and killed the attacker, he said.
In the first of the attacks last month, in late December an Afghan soldier opened fire on American soldiers in the western province of Farah during a joint patrol. Only the Afghan soldier was killed in that attack, which was preceded by an argument between the Afghans and the Americans.
A few days later, a man wearing an Afghan Army uniform gunned down two members of the French Foreign Legion in the east of the country before being fatally shot.
Separately, the bodies of four American service members killed in a roadside bombing last week in Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan were returned to the United States, The Associated Press reported. They were among eight NATO service members who were killed in three separate insurgent attacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/world/asia/afghan-soldier-kills-american-and-wounds-3-others.html