Posted on 04/17/2011 3:13:55 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
The murders on Saturday of five NATO soldiers by a Taliban suicide bomber who enlisted as an Afghan National Army soldier marked the latest in a rising toll of coalition troop deaths at the hands of Afghan security forces they are attempting to train.
Since January, 13 troops with the International Security Assistance Force have been killed when Afghan police, soldiers or security guards — or insurgents who infiltrated their ranks — attacked coalition forces. These types of killings have accounted for the deaths of at least 38 coalition personnel since 2009, according to a Stars and Stripes review, constituting roughly 3 percent of the hostile fire deaths among troops during that time.
By comparison, 27 troops were killed by mortar or indirect fire attacks launched by insurgents during that same time period, according to the independent website icasualties.org.
Surprisingly, the killers are not usually Taliban sleeper agents or impostors. They often appear to be regular Afghan troops who start shooting after some dispute with coalition troops, according to the NATO command in charge of training Afghan security forces.
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The ISAF Joint Command has played down the killings of coalition forces by Afghan security forces, calling the incidents rare, random and inexplicable.
“Each of these appear to be isolated incidents and the circumstances regarding each vary,” an ISAF spokesman, Maj. Michael Johnson, told Stars and Stripes in an email. “As to why these happen, we’re not going to speculate. That seems more a question for the perpetrators.”
Officials of the joint command said they have not studied possible motives for the killings.
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IMHO time to GTFO
Stupid coalition thinks they can "train" the Afghans, who have been humiliating the biggest powers in Europe for centuries! Not with great victories, but with a death of 1000 cuts...
Muslims are like pitbulls. You just can’t trust them. Someday, they’re going to bite.
Never, never, EVER trust a muslim.
An “Afghan” army is an impossibility, since there are no “Afghans”.
There are only tribes;and any military formations need to be based on those tribal identities.
When the British were in India, they didn’t try and form units with one Ghurka, one Tamil, one Brahmin, etc. Instead, units were formed from each ethnic group.
When necessary, tribal enemies were sent to fight one another.
In Afghanistan we needed to do the same: Pasthuns in one unit, Hazaris in another, etc. Tribes that cooperate with us
get a lot of stuff, good things, money, etc. Tribes that don’t, have to face their traditional enemies, armed by us, and with us fighting alongside them.
Same thing happened in Vietnam.
1st Air Cav door gunners were told to cover with M-60 machine guns departing ARVN troops who would shoot into the helo when landing at a LZ.
When you can trust your ally to not kill you, something is wrong.
I couldn't agree more.
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Make sure all Afghan Soldiers who fight with the troops have a family. When they kill the troops ,kill the family.
Sound barbaric ? It is. So is living and working with people and then blowing them up.
I also agree. They are a feral species and cannot be “domesticated.”
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