Posted on 07/13/2010 9:43:46 PM PDT by Steelfish
Rogue Afghan Soldier Murdered Senior Army Officer In His Sleep A Senior British Army officer murdered in his sleeping quarters was among the three victims of a rogue Afghan soldier.
By James Kirkup and Thomas Harding 13 Jul 2010
The officer, a company commander in charge of a British base in Helmand province, was shot dead in the early hours. Two members of the Royal Gurkha Rifles, one a British-born junior officer and the other a Nepalese Gurkha, were also killed by the Afghan, who fired a machinegun and a rocket-propelled grenade.
The killings happened at a British patrol base in Nahr-e Saraj, just eight months after five British soldiers were shot dead and several others seriously wounded by an Afghan police officer, also in Helmand province. The Afghan soldier who carried out the latest attack fled the base and was being hunted last night by British units including the Special Forces. A British general said the killer, a senior non-commissioned officer holding the rank of sergeant or higher, may have been “turned” by the Taliban. Last night the Taliban claimed the Afghan soldier had joined its insurgency.
In a message on its website, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, the Afghan Taliban spokesman, said that after opening fire on the sleeping servicemen the rogue soldier fled to a location protected by the Taliban. The incident has raised fresh concerns about the Western strategy for Afghanistan, which is based on training and enlarging the Afghan National Army until its members can secure the country themselves.
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May have been LOL
Still, there's a bunch of p*ssed off Gurkhas now, the Tollyban better go hide a while.
They have learned well from the commies in this country...
Pretty much the same issue in Iraq - where we have been training their army. What factors are reliable indicators that you are training trustworthy individuals and not honing the skills of the enemy?
You mean like, "Rogue President murders America in her sleep"?
Let’s pull out of that Hell hole....what is victory? My God....lose more good people’s lives to save what? A liberal likes to nation build in Africa. A conservative likes to nation build in Afghanistan.
Muslims killing sleeping men! There must not have been any women and children around. Those are very brave people. Oops! Brave should be depraved!
That's a pretty good trick.
Most people can't even find their slippers in their sleep. :/)
The rogue must have had some good training, huh?
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