Posted on 07/02/2012 3:15:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A man wearing Afghan police uniform shot dead three British soldiers at a checkpoint in Afghanistan on Sunday, Britain's Defence Ministry said on Monday.
The soldiers were serving with an Afghan police advisory team and were killed after a meeting at the checkpoint at Nahr-e-Saraj in southern Helmand province.
The assailant was injured and detained, a Defence Ministry spokesman said. …
Britain has about 9,500 troops in Afghanistan and is due to withdraw 500 by the end of the year. It plans to bring home all its combat troops by the end of 2014. …
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Reports are they were shot by a member of an “ elite” Afgan police unit.
We need to remove all Western troops from this s-hole. Let the drones handle the trouble makers. These people don’t deserve freedom.
,,,,,, very sad ,,,, but still safer in Afganistan than the bamster’s hometown .
did the rules of engagement play a role in this??
Indeed. They are so unworthy of our blood & treasure. Where is Cindy Sheehan?!? Bring them all home today.
I’d make them all disarm and strip to their underwear before they got anywhere close to our people.
All that leftover napalm and agent orange from the Vietnam war? Wipe out their poppy fields with them. That’s all they care about, selling heroin to the infidels
Withdraw all troops from that shithole and destroy their poppies for the next ten years
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