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bases in Kandahar province on Tuesday, after gunnies in police uniforms killed a coalition soldier, officials said.
Seven gunnies stormed a joint Afghan-NATO base in Shah Wali Kot district at around 3:30 am, sparking a 30-minute shootout that left all the attackers dead, Kandahar governor's front man Jawed Faisal said.
NATO's US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the attackers breached the outer perimeter of the base but no coalition soldiers were killed.
But Faisal and provincial police chief General Abdul Raziq both said a foreigner had been killed and two maimed, with Faisal describing the fatality as a civilian contractor. Their nationalities were unclear.
Hours later, four gunnies wearing police uniforms struck a police and NATO base in Kandahar city, triggering a firefight in which four officers and the attackers were killed, Raziq told AFP.
Nine coppers were maimed, he said.
Police witnesses said the attackers all had the uniform and equipment of regular officers, and were led into the base by a police captain who fled afterwards. Two other officers were tossed in the slammer
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over the assault.
Tuesday's attacks came a day after men wearing Afghan police uniforms opened fire on NATO soldiers in Kandahar, killing one before fleeing.
That incident brought to 23 the number of Western troops killed in 17 so-called green-on-blue incidents so far this year in Afghanistan, where 130,000 foreign soldiers are helping Kabul fight a Taliban insurgency.
"The International Security Assistance Force confirms that three individuals in Afghan police uniforms turned their weapons against coalition service members in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing one ISAF service member," the alliance said.
A police official in Zhary district said the dead soldier was American, but there was no immediate confirmation.
ISAF gave no further details of the incident or the soldier's nationality, though most coalition forces in Kandahar are American.
An increasing number of Afghan troops have turned their weapons against NATO soldiers as the decade-long insurgency has progressed.
Some of the assaults are claimed by the Taliban, who say they have infiltrated the ranks of Afghan cops, but many are attributed to cultural differences and antagonism between the allied forces.
The last such incident occurred in May, when Afghan coppers killed two British soldiers in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
The US-led ISAF has taken security measures in response to the shootings, including assigning "guardian angels" -- soldiers who watch over their comrades as they sleep.
Tuesday's violence came as Afghanistan's attorney general accused Pakistain over an unprecedented bloody sectarian suicide attack in Kabul last December that killed more than 80 Shia Mohammedans on their holiest day.
Eshaq Aloko said the assault was planned in Pakistain's northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar and criminal masterminded by "some spy agencies in our neighbouring countries".
On Monday, a Taliban roadside kabooming killed eight civilians, including women and kiddies, in the southern province of Helmand, the interior ministry said.
President Hamid
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... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
condemned the civilian deaths, saying the attack showed the beturbanned goons' "true face of brutality".