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Afghan inside attack kills 2 Americans, 2 Afghans, marking 2,000 US troop deaths
fox news ^ | 9/30/2012 | ap

Posted on 09/30/2012 5:48:54 AM PDT by tobyhill

An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American troops at a checkpoint in the country's east, killing two Americans and at least two fellow members of Afghanistan's army in a shooting that marked both the continuance of a disturbing trend of insider attacks and the 2,000th U.S. troop death in the long-running war, officials said Sunday.

The string of insider attacks is one of the greatest threats to NATO's mission in the country, endangering a partnership key to training up Afghan security forces and withdrawing international troops.

Saturday's shooting took place at an Afghan army checkpoint just outside a joint U.S.-Afghan base in Wardak province, said Shahidullah Shahid, a provincial government spokesman.

"Initial reports indicate that a misunderstanding happened between Afghan army soldiers and American soldiers," Shahid said. He said investigators had been sent to the site to try to figure out what happened.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012electionbias; afghanistan; codepinkmia; deathlist; doublestandard; obamaswar; thegoodwar
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1 posted on 09/30/2012 5:48:57 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

I except 60 Minutes to be all over this tonite. /s


2 posted on 09/30/2012 5:52:38 AM PDT by library user
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To: library user

except = expect. Need more coffee.


3 posted on 09/30/2012 5:53:15 AM PDT by library user
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To: library user

I guess Code Pink is too busy marching around dressed as reproductive organs to protest this insane war.


4 posted on 09/30/2012 5:55:05 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: tobyhill

AAARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!


5 posted on 09/30/2012 5:55:55 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and bo stinks)
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To: ilovesarah2012

My thought on this subject was did they circumcise the costumes for display in Afghanistan?


6 posted on 09/30/2012 5:59:02 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: bert

LOL - they are sick.


7 posted on 09/30/2012 6:00:43 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: tobyhill

WTF is the mission in Afghanistan?

It’s time to go if we can’t dominate the place.


8 posted on 09/30/2012 6:00:43 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Yes, I guess dead soldiers are okay as long as they get dead under the leftist watch.

I wonder how long thise Code Pinkos would last in Afghanistan dressed up like walking uteruses?


9 posted on 09/30/2012 6:01:13 AM PDT by dforest
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I am so sick of NATO and Ogumby leaving our soldiers to twist on the wind.


10 posted on 09/30/2012 6:04:45 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: dforest

Don’t know but my guess is they wouldn’t last long. They are mentally ill so I guess they have something in common with muslims.


11 posted on 09/30/2012 6:07:24 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: tobyhill

Thank you soldiers, and Godspeed...


12 posted on 09/30/2012 6:09:14 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: tobyhill

If, I know it is getting so redundant, we had a Republican president ALL the GOP guests on the talking heads today would be getting SKINNED MARINATED AND GRILLED over this.


13 posted on 09/30/2012 6:11:56 AM PDT by Happy Rain ("Mitt who? I'm voting for Ryan.")
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To: tobyhill

Dear God please have someone bring them home!


14 posted on 09/30/2012 6:14:36 AM PDT by angcat (ROMNEY/RYAN 2012)
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“Dear God please have someone bring them home!”

Yes, bring them home and get the B52’s out to nuke the entire area.


15 posted on 09/30/2012 6:25:44 AM PDT by CapnJack
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To: MestaMachine

In the last month:
a friend of ours was wounded [one dead, one lost his legs]
I attended a funeral of an area soldier [four dead]

Both Army, both in Afghanistan, both same MO.


16 posted on 09/30/2012 6:25:44 AM PDT by freema (MarineNiece,Daughter,Wife,Friend,Sister,Friend,Aunt,Friend,Mother,Friend,Cousin, FRiend)
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To: freema

And b-o intends for this to continue happening until 2014. There are no words.
At least none I could post.


17 posted on 09/30/2012 6:38:30 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and bo stinks)
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To: tobyhill

And, if I recall correctly, roughly three-quarters of the 2000 have died since January 2009.


18 posted on 09/30/2012 6:39:14 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Happy Rain
That's true, but there's a flip side to this, too.

Why aren't Republican candidates -- especially Mitt Romney -- making this Afghanistan debacle a major campaign theme?

I'll tell you why, folks ... it's because they're all complicit in it.

19 posted on 09/30/2012 6:46:04 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: CapnJack

That is what my beloved dad said on 9/12/01. Bush should have took that route instead we have a no win situation and they are dying for those savages. I’m starting to think that Ron the kook Paul was correct with his isolating the USA and have our troops protect our homeland.


20 posted on 09/30/2012 7:13:06 AM PDT by angcat (ROMNEY/RYAN 2012)
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