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Afghanistan: 'Policeman' kills two Nato soldiers
BBC ^ | April 4th 2011 | Staff

Posted on 04/04/2011 10:42:02 AM PDT by Cardhu

Two Nato soldiers have been shot dead by an Afghan border policeman in Afghanistan's northern Faryab province, local officials say.

They say the victims were Americans, adding that the gunman fled the checkpoint where the shooting happened. Nato is now investigating the incident.

But another account says that the shots were fired from a nearby house and the police officer ran away at that point.

Nato is due begin transferring power to local Afghan forces in July.

'Mobile phone recovered'

The Afghan border policeman opened fire on the Americans after a verbal clash during a joint patrol, a senior Afghan official in Faryab told the BBC.

"I was inside [a building] having tea and discussing various issues with my American adviser, when we heard gunshots," the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the BBC's Bilal Sarwary.

"The soldier had fired one full magazine of his AK-47. He had fled the compound before we could get to him," the official said, adding that the policeman's mobile phone was recovered later.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; police; treacherousafghans

1 posted on 04/04/2011 10:42:07 AM PDT by Cardhu
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To: Cardhu

Obama’s fault.


2 posted on 04/04/2011 10:45:36 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: RexBeach

funny how we never ever hear now the deaths of our soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan or even the kidnapped American soldier.

When Bush was in all we ever heard every day is how another bomb went off, innocent people died, our boys being killed.

Yet again this American corrupt media will cover for their messiah.


3 posted on 04/04/2011 10:49:03 AM PDT by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: Cardhu

What’s the body count in Afghanistan and Iraq since 0bama was installed to the throne ???


4 posted on 04/04/2011 10:50:07 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: RexBeach

It is beyond me how when two American soldiers are killed, we at FR can be so callous.

You do know, that two American soldiers’ families will be without their loved ones, correct?

You should be ashamed of your post.

Screw it, flame away. You ain’t right man.


5 posted on 04/04/2011 10:56:42 AM PDT by tongue-tied
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To: tongue-tied

I did NOT mean it as a joke, nor am I ashamed of it.

The blood is on Mr. Obama’s hands...not mine...nor yours.


6 posted on 04/04/2011 11:06:07 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: Cardhu

At the risk of being politically incorrect I advocate sending every last raghead and raghead wannabe to paradise.

7 posted on 04/04/2011 11:09:28 AM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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To: Cardhu

They will get better at it as soon as the CIA ships them some better weapons from Libya.


8 posted on 04/04/2011 11:21:56 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Cardhu

The Afghan police and military are infiltrated with radical Muslims; the only question is how do you ID them.


9 posted on 04/04/2011 1:07:48 PM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: manc
London Telegraph:

Rogue policeman shoots dead two US soldiers as Koran riots rage across Afghanistan

Two American soldiers have been shot dead by a rogue Afghan police officer, even as thousands of demonstrators turned out for a fourth day of protests against the burning of a Koran by a fundamentalist cleric in Florida.


An effigy of Terry Jones, the US preacher, burns during a demonstration in Shinwar

Twelve people died in Kandahar over the weekend, when demonstrators waving Taliban flags and shouting "Death to America" burned cars, smashed shops and sacked a high school for girls...more

10 posted on 04/04/2011 9:01:24 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay
sad that we have to go to a Uk paper to get the news that our military are killed and are every week but again I'll say it when Bush was in all we ever heard was bombs going off even if no one was killed. These muslims don't need an excuse to hate us , they have been brainwashed to hate us and will continue to do so. This don't upset the enemy is pure crap, just imagine if we had this theory in other wars of past.
11 posted on 04/05/2011 6:26:44 AM PDT by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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