Afghan Soldier Kills American and Wounds 3 Others

New York Times ^ | January 9, 2012 | GRAHAM BOWLEY and SHARIFULLAH SAHAK

[Pan_Yan]

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American military personnel while they were playing volleyball at a camp in southern Afghanistan, killing one and wounding three others before being fatally shot, the Afghan police said on Monday.

It was the third time in just over two weeks that a man wearing an Afghan Army uniform attacked NATO personnel. In the earlier cases, the Taliban claimed responsibility, although there was no immediate claim in this case that the Afghan soldier had Taliban sympathies.

The attack took place on Sunday afternoon in Qalat, the capital of Zabul Province. The Afghan soldier approached the volleyball game and appeared to watch the soldiers play before opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle, said Ghulam Jilani Farahi, deputy police chief of Zabul Province. Another American soldier who heard the firing shot and killed the attacker, he said.

The coalition released only a brief statement, late on Sunday, saying that a service member “was killed today in southern Afghanistan apparently by a member of the Afghan National Army.”

[David Isaac]

Well, at least they allowed our personnel to be armed. If this had happened at Ft. Hood, the Afghan (alleged murderer) would still be firing.

[vette6387]

We so need to abandon that $hitthole place and on the way home, dump a couple of C5A loads of frozen pork on Mecca and Medina.

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[Iron Munro]

Well, at least they allowed our personnel to be armed. If this had happened at Ft. Hood, the Afghan (alleged murderer) would still be firing.

Nothing to see here folks - just move along.

It's only another minor incident of Workplace Violence.

[Zhang Fei]

We so need to abandon that $hitthole place and on the way home, dump a couple of C5A loads of frozen pork on Mecca and Medina.

That would be a lot like - after a friend is killed by a criminal from a given ethnic or religious background - going into a neighborhood with that background and spraying it with bullets. It doesn't solve the problem and gets a lot of friendlies mad. Throughout history, enemy infiltration has always been part of the cost of war. Until we learn to read minds, that's not gonna change.