How awful!
RIP to the two fallen soldiers and thoughts and prayers for the surviving soldier’s recovery.
The latest is that all were shot with the same weapon, in different towns.
All were French citizens; three were of North African origin, the other Caribbean. All serving on active duty with France’s elite parachute division stationed in Afghanistan.
After the Mossad, the French Secret Service is the best there is. Hopefully they will solve this quickly, and prevent more incidents.
So far, the speculation is that this was carefully planned, and the motivation might have been from extreme far right racist groups or extreme far left anti military groups.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting...(could it be another?)...
...especially given the recent shootings by Afghan military against American servicemen.
Tactically, this might be a wise move, but the authorities better wrap this up quickly, because public relations wise, they’re handing a victory to the perps — whoever they are.
“We scared them right out of their uniforms.”
If they thought the “cheese-eating-surrender-monkey” jokes were bad before, yeeeeesh!
Hell of a way to lose good men. All free world military-and the press that covers them-will have to be wary in the future.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to ARM THE SOLDIERS!
I mean really folks!
If taking them out of uniform is such a good idea, certainly dressing in skirts and wearing wigs would be absolutely brilliant.
Grow some already!
Simple solution.....give the soldiers sidearms and tell them not to leave their barracks alone. If these guys are
as elite as they are advertised and allowed to be armed the
bandit might take out one more of them but that would be the
end of his career.