Yet another incident of a member of Afghanistan’s security forces going rogue was reported Monday, when a border policeman shot and killed two US soldiers before fleeing the scene. There is no indication that he has been located since.
The US patrol was at the Afghan border police base in Faryab Province investigating the new recruits when the attack occurred. Officials did not say if the attacker was one of the new recruits, nor if he was working for any particular militant faction.
Reports have been around for years that the Taliban has been ambitious in trying to infiltrate the police nationwide, and defections are fairly common. NATO has been struggling to train a massive police force and military in Afghanistan, but is losing many of them to attrition, either from danger or from Taliban recruitment efforts.
Incidents of Afghan security forces killing NATO soldiers likewise occur with some regularity. Of course NATO air strikes also kill Afghan soldiers fairly often, which has contributed to the atmosphere of distrust between the two sides.
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Marine Cpl. Harry Lew, 21, died Sunday, April 3, in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
The war continues if not stopped.The grand childreb suffers not we
"Default would cause a financial crisis potentially more severe than the crisis from which we are only now starting to recover," Geithner said. He warned that military pay, social assistance payments and tax refunds could be among the first things to be blocked."
MILITARY PAY BLOCKED–if USA troops deaths don't stop the military operating in far away places–this will surely do, in no time :^)
NATO has been struggling to train a massive police force and military in Afghanistan just like the one we have in America. These American forces are ready to kill anti-war Americans at a moments notice. Hasn't America really progressed.
Resistance to invaders and occupiers is getting stronger and stronger.
God Bless Patriotic Forces in all occupied lands!
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Oh, well. War is hell or so they say. And these days, even mercenaries get killed in war. How about that?
"…NATO air strikes also kill Afghan soldiers fairly often…" And let's also mention hundreds (thousands?) of innocent civilians. I think we should consider ourselves lucky that the Afghan police/military are only killing US (NATO) troops in the ones and twos. When are we going to learn that we really have no business being there?
rogue policeman??? he was executing murderers