Posted on 08/25/2010 10:36:21 AM PDT by Cardhu
KABUL, Afghanistan — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A driver for the Spanish police contingent in Afghanistan opened fire during a training exercise Wednesday, killing two Spanish officers and their interpreter in what appeared to be the latest in a series of attacks by infiltrators linked to the insurgency, officials said.
The assailant was shot and killed by Spanish officers who had been conducting a police training course at their base in Badghis province, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.
"I can't say if the Taliban were behind this or not. But what is clear is that it was a premeditated attack. The person who opened fire knew exactly what he was doing. Therefore, this was a terrorist attack," Perez Rubalcaba said at a news conference in Madrid.
He said the shooter was the longtime driver of one of the slain Spaniards and was not actually a policeman himself. The man had worked with the Spanish police unit since it arrived in Afghanistan five months ago, he said.
The officers, both age 33, were members of the Civil Guard, a paramilitary unit under the command of the Interior Ministry. Their translator was a Spanish citizen of Iranian origin, the ministry said.
Following the shooting, hundreds of angry men gathered outside the walls of the Spanish camp, chanting religious slogans and hurling stones. Shots were fired, although it wasn't clear who was doing the shooting.
Provincial health director Abdul Aziz Tariq said 25 people were wounded in the protest, most of them by bullets, with two in critical condition. Seven of those hospitalized were under 18 years old but their wounds were not life threatening, he said.
Fences around the base were torn down and fires set. At least one truck was torched. NATO said it was monitoring the demonstration.
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Quis custodiet custodes?
obama’s war
Who is teach who how to war?
Who is teach who how to war?
teaching
His citizenship country means nothing. When will the military (ours and theirs) understand that the Iranian origin means everything.
Centuries have passed and oceans of blood have been split, but it has still failed to civilize those who wish to follow a barbarian cult.
Why is the rest of the world so arrogant to think that we can change those who have no wish to be changed?
The translator was shot by the driver as well.
Reported to Mods for injecting facts into a potential knee-jerk thread.
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