Men in Afghan police uniforms kill 2 NATO troops

[Shah-i-Kot]

May 12, 2012 1:21 PM

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Men in Afghan police uniforms kill 2 NATO troops



(CBS/AP)


(AP) KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO and Afghan officials say that two of the coalition service members killed in the country's south were gunned down by men dressed in Afghan police uniforms.
There were conflicting reports, however, as to whether the assailants in Saturday's shooting in Helmand province were members of the police force or rather insurgents disguised as police officers.
Fareed Ahmad, a spokesman for Helmand provincial police, says two Afghan policemen were behind the shooting at a joint Afghan-coalition compound in Helmand.
NATO said that operational reports indicated that the gunmen were insurgents dressed in police uniforms, not official members of the police force.
The shooting is the latest in a string of incidents in which Afghan security forces or militants disguised as policemen turn their weapons on their international military partners.

[RevolutionThroughReason]

CBS news? Western

[Shah-i-Kot]

who actually believes that Pakistan is behind this?

Discuss. Is this what some here like to believe is Pakistani "interference?" Can I see a convincing argument here?

Is there a Pakistani Voldemort who is behind every single thing in the world, who when he farts, hurricanes happen in the sea of Japan??


Is Pakistan, the most corrupt state, behind Occupy Wall Street, or the Arab Spring? What corrupt state would be so hell bent on backing these movements while oppressing their own people???

Pakistan interferes in Afghanistan by propping up the Karzai regime and occupation with supply routes.

^^^^That a fact- undeniable unless you are simply biased

[RevolutionThroughReason]

or simply honest.

[Breshna]

Nato is making...excuses.

They hate the...truth.

The Afghan arm forces are...turning

on them due to...night raids

and killings of civilians still...carrying

on.

The civilian deaths...that

U.S.A doesn't bother...reporting

as their not...humans.

Its going to get very...UGLY.

[Khostai]

who actually believes that Pakistan is behind this?

Discuss. Is this what some here like to believe is Pakistani "interference?" Can I see a convincing argument here?

Is there a Pakistani Voldemort who is behind every single thing in the world, who when he farts, hurricanes happen in the sea of Japan??


Is Pakistan, the most corrupt state, behind Occupy Wall Street, or the Arab Spring? What corrupt state would be so hell bent on backing these movements while oppressing their own people???

Pakistan interferes in Afghanistan by propping up the Karzai regime and occupation with supply routes.

^^^^That a fact- undeniable unless you are simply biased

Why do you always say that Pakistan is behind the wal street **** and the arab spring. Nobody on this forum have claimed that or even talked about that. Pakistan is a ****hole that everyone hates even your own felow Pakis hate that country, Pakistan is the cancer of south Asia, Pakistan only medles in Afghanistan becuase he can't reach other countrys and because our country has been weaken after 3 decades of war. You beloved country is just a parasite, I wish sometimes that India would just drop some atomboms on your ****heads for you waghschi peopel and wagshi culture.....

Wheb some one say Pakistan I always get sick and wat to puck

[Afghanistan2010]

Soldiers shot by Afghan police were British: London

Two soldiers shot dead in southern Afghanistan by local police officers were British, the Ministry of Defence confirmed on Sunday a day after the killings.
"Sadly, it is my duty to confirm that a soldier serving with 1st Battalion Welsh Guards and an airman from The Royal Air Force have been shot and killed in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand province," said Major Ian Lawrence, spokesman for Task Force Helmand.
The ministry said in a statement that the two were "shot and killed by members of the Afghan police force", although NATO's force in Afghanistan had on Saturday indicated they were insurgents dressed as police.
A police spokesman said they were members of the force, however, and a senior security official in the province said they had been in the Afghan police force for about a year.
The two had been working as part of an advisory team and were providing security for a meeting with local officials at the time, the ministry's statement said.
ISAF said Saturday that one of the attackers had been killed and the other was still being sought.
The killings bring this year's toll in "green-on-blue" attacks -- in which Afghan forces turn their weapons against their Western Allies -- to 22, in a total of 16 such incidents.
An increasing number of Afghan troops have turned their weapons on NATO soldiers who are helping Kabul fight a decade-long insurgency by hardline Taliban Islamists.
Some of the assaults are claimed by the Taliban, who say they have infiltrated the ranks of Afghan security forces, but many are attributed to cultural differences and antagonism between the allied forces.
ISAF has taken several security measures in response to the shootings, including assigning "guardian angels" -- soldiers who watch over their comrades as they sleep.
The families of the two British soldiers have been informed, the ministry said.
The killings bring the British toll in the more than 10-year Afghan war to 412.
Britain has some 9,500 troops in Afghanistan, mainly based in Helmand.
They form part of a 130,000-strong ISAF force fighting alongside some 350,000 Afghan security personnel against the Taliban-led insurgency, but the foreign troops are due to pull out of the country in 2014.
Two other NATO soldiers died Saturday, one in a bomb blast and the other as a result of a "non-battle related injury", ISAF said, without giving the nationalities of any of the victims.