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moderate libertarian
03-01-2012, 06:14 PM
This follows a US trainer major and colonel killed inside Afghan ministry couple of days ago by an Afghan police intelligence officer:




Thursday, 03.01.12


2 more U.S. soldiers killed by Afghan partners

McClatchy Newspapers
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghans killed two American soldiers and wounded at least two others before dawn Thursday at a joint base in Kandahar province, in the latest deadly shooting of international forces by their Afghan partners, U.S. officials said.
The Pentagon said that two Afghan soldiers and a civilian accomplice - a literacy teacher - fired on the American service members from a guard tower at the Sang-e-Sar outpost in southern Afghanistan.


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/01/2670023/2-more-us-soldiers-killed-by-afghan.html#storylink=cpy



According to news in this past post, 800 more US trainers will be heading to Afghanistan to train Afghan soldiers/police?





Afghan employee kills U.S. citizen at Kabul CIA base

KABUL | Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:49pm EDT

KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan security guard employed by the U.S. Embassy opened fire inside a CIA office in Kabul on Sunday evening, killing an American contractor and injuring a second person, U.S. and Afghan officials said, in the second major breach of embassy security in two weeks.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/26/us-afghanistan-usa-attack-idUSTRE78P0BC20110926?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

In other Afghan news:

US commander says 800 more US trainers heading to Afghanistan by March
Washington Post - 29 minutes ago

By AP, WASHINGTON — The number of American military trainers in Afghanistan will increase by 800 by next March, a jump of nearly 25 percent in the US ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-commander-says-800-more-us-trainers-heading-to-afghanistan-by-march/2011/09/26/gIQAs8lPzK_story.html




These insider attack incidences are part of an accelerating trend that has killed close to 80 NATO troops in Afghanistan in recent months:


http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?353931-Trust-vanishing-26-attacks-by-Afghan-soldiers-have-killed-at-least-62-Western-troops

moderate libertarian
03-01-2012, 06:28 PM
Other current/past Afghan war news:



NATO Chief Urges Afghan President To Protect ISAF Soldiers From Attacks

http://www.rttnews.com/1831757/nato-chief-urges-afghan-president-to-protect-isaf-soldiers-from-attacks.aspx?type=gn&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=sitemap




Afghan President Warns Obama About Civilian Deaths - ABC News

abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=13044687