As NATO continues to insist that its relationship with Afghan forces is tense but “manageable,” another member of the Afghan National Police has opened fire on NATO forces in the country, killing three.
Details of this evening’s shooting are light so far, with NATO spokesmen saying only that it happened in “southern Afghanistan” at some time after 5:00 pm. The attacker, a member of the riot control group the Afghan Civil Order Police, was captured after the shooting.
NATO officials say that the details of the shooting are still under investigation, and they also have declined so far to release the nationalities of the slain soldiers. Though some past shootings have been by Taliban “infiltrators” into the police, the majority have been the result of arguments between the Afghans and the occupation forces.
The Pentagon has repeatedly tried to downplay the significance of such shootings, with officials saying that the “huge majority” of Afghan forces don’t end up shooting NATO soldiers, and insisting that the Afghan government is screening better for infiltrators. Such incidents are continuing with such regularity, however, that the claims will be difficult to credibly maintain.
So if it's just arguments ('boys will be boys'), how many fatalities we got from arguments within NATO ranks? Or is there something especially volatile about green/blue arguments (like, "whatchoo guys doin' in my country anyway?')
Six Afghan children were killed by a NATO air raid Friday in the Eastern mountainous region of Afghanistan. The children were from six to 12 years according to a story on line from Arab news. The same story claims thirty five U.S. soldiers died in Afghanistan in June, 2012. That is nine more than the 26 American dead reported by the DoD so far in June. An unusually large discrepancy in U. S. combat dead reported by an alternative media source compared to combat deaths reported by DoD.
Total NATO casualties were 35 dead in June with 26 Americans in the total. Arab news reported erroneously 35 Americans is my guess.
DoD reports today the death of two more U.S. soldiers killed on June 24 in Kandahar.
Total US combat dead in Afghanistan reported by DoD for June, 2012 is now 28 by my count.
Shoot the as many as possible, so rest may revolt…and US packs up and leave forever / bloody invadors and f..ing colonists/….
Great so then the locals can do all the killing the way they did back in the 1990s. That'll be swell, and no one will pretend to care either.
The three soldiers were Brits.