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.
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Obama’s fault.
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.
What’s the body count in Afghanistan and Iraq since 0bama was installed to the throne ???
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.
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.
At the risk of being politically incorrect I advocate sending every last raghead and raghead wannabe to paradise.
They will get better at it as soon as the CIA ships them some better weapons from Libya.
The Afghan police and military are infiltrated with radical Muslims; the only question is how do you ID them.
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