Posted on 05/18/2011 11:58:17 AM PDT by Cardhu
A rogue Afghan police officer opened fire on British soldiers, killing five and injuring six, after a row over a hat he turned up in for duty, an inquest heard.
The man, known only as Gulbuddin, shot soldiers who were mentoring Afghan police officers at a checkpoint in Helmand province. The inquest heard claims that Afghan police officers were open to corruption, sometimes lacked commitment and were high on drugs while on duty. In one episode outlined during the hearing an Afghan police officer gave ammunition to the Taliban in exchange for narcotics. It also emerged that the British men were posted at the checkpoint after a "blood feud" between an Afghan police officer and a local Taliban commander.
Lance Corporal Liam Culverhouse, who was shot in the eye in the attack, told the inquest at Trowbridge in Wiltshire that he was reading a magazine when the shooting began and saw a "flash of red". "I realised I'd been shot. I heard a rifle going off in automatic bursts and Gulbuddin shouting something that was like a war cry. I felt the pain and my eye was blind."
"Gulbuddin was screaming. I decided it was time to get out of there so I crawled around the corner and I decided to play dead, close my eyes and hold my breath. All I could hear inside was gunfire, scream, gunfire, scream. From then on I fell unconscious for a period of time. What woke me up was a helicopter going past."
Gulbuddin fled and his motives remain unclear, but Culverhouse described how on one occasion the Afghan police officer had grabbed him by the head and on another had "barged" him off a platform. "It wasn't just me. He was always trying to wind up members of the platoon
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But he said that Blue 25 had been beset by problems when his troops arrived in the area. A shura – meeting – was arranged with village elders and it was discovered that there was a blood feud between the local police officer in charge of Blue 25 and a Taliban commander.
The infidels “dissed” him...
hmmm... similar cultures? common cultural origins?
Sounds like Chicago.
Nukes and nerve gas.
Was it a nice hat?
Before we go we should carpet-bomb the poppy fields and then carpet-bomb any terrorist camps that shows up.
Next tell Pakistan to sod-off and sign an alliance with India.
Over and over again I ask why are we there and what is accomplished by our staying there?
What are you, some kind of "Paultard" radical? (sarc)
we can destroy islam by becoming an energy exporting nation.
Little barry knows this and this is one of the reasons he and Steven Chu are trying to sabotage the energy industry...
muslims... feral animals... just waiting for the opportunity to explode with murderous anger.
Let’s GTFO of there and bomb our way out.
Let’s GTFO of there and bomb our way out.
Considering how they live, would bombing them change anything? We may create a few holes in the ground that are not currently there but, other than that, how could we deteriorate that squalid hell hole?
Muslim men of the Taliban type are beyond salvation and the geography is nearly worthless.
However, in honor of the men who died there we should not desert them like the Democrats deserted the Vietnamese. Those who stood by us, those Afghans, should be in a position to defend their country against the Taliban and the Pakistanis.
He really hasn’t been in office very long, compared to how long we’ve been energy-dependent.
The plan to bring them out of the stone age is ridiculous. If it was possiblr they would have done it on their own, long ago.
They parade around in 3-ft. bearskin hats in front of Buckingham Palace, they have no cause to complain about anyone’s headgear!;)
That hat is up to 19,000 pounds?! I’d rather have Princess Beatrice;)
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