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| Afghan Policeman Killed in Firefight with NATO Troops | |
| 2016-02-11 | |
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces in the capital Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , the country's interior ministry said Wednesday. The incident erupted on Tuesday when the police officer opened fire on a NATO delegation at the entrance of Afghanistan's Ministry of Commerce and Industries, the ministry said in statement. The shooter was maimed when NATO soldiers returned fire, according to NATO front man Michael Lawhorn. No NATO forces were maimed during the incident. The assailant later died after succumbing to injuries at a local hospital. "The interior ministry has ordered Kabul police to investigate the incident," the ministry's statement added. So-called "green-on-blue" attacks, when Afghan soldiers or police turn their guns on international troops or colleagues, have been a major problem during NATO's long years fighting alongside local forces. The attacks have bred fierce mistrust between Afghan and foreign troops even though the number of such incidents has declined in recent years. NATO formally ended its combat mission in Afghanistan in December 2014 and pulled out the bulk of its troops, however, a 13,000-strong residual force remains in the country to assist with training and counter-terrorism operations. The Afghan military, which was built from scratch after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, has also struggled with "insider attack" killings, high casualty rates and mass desertions. Last month, 10 Afghan coppers were killed after being drugged and shot by a rogue colleague at an outpost in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 No NATO troups were maimed during the incident so it appears that fierce mistrust is serving them well. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-02-11 13:49 |
| #1 "The assailant later died after succumbing to injuries at a local hospital." Yah, jumping on 'assailant's' chest for 10 minutes tends to have that effect. Overheard from 'cardiac stimulator'; "He STILL has a pulse? Dang. I'll give him five more minutes of stimulation then". |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2016-02-11 07:52 |