I’ve always thought training these guys is like swimming with Great White Sharks and teaching them to eat fish.
The Long War Journal’s data covers green-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan from Jan. 1, 2008 up to the present. As of June 24, 2014, there have been a total of 87 attacks.
Total number of attacks per year:
2014 - 2
2013 - 13
2012 - 44
2011 - 16
2010 - 5
2009 - 5
2008 - 2
Total number of attacks per province:
Badghis - 4
Baghlan - 1
Balkh - 2
Farah - 1
Faryab - 2
Ghor - 1
Helmand - 19
Herat - 2
Kabul - 5
Kandahar - 16
Kapisa - 4
Kunar - 1
Laghman - 3
Nangarhar - 3
Paktia - 5
Paktika - 5
Uruzgan - 4
Wardak - 5
Zabul - 2
Unknown - 1
Numbers of Coalition troops and affiliates killed and wounded by green-on-blue attacks:
The total number of Coalition deaths from green-on-blue attacks for the period Jan. 1, 2008 to the present is 142. The total number of Coalition wounded is 165.
Green-on-blue deaths per year, and percentage of Coalition deaths caused by such attacks:
2014 - 2 - 4.5%
2013 - 14 - 9.9%
2012 - 61 - 15%
2011 - 35 - 6%
2010 - 16 - 2%
2009 - 12 - 2%
2008 - 2 - less than 1%
Green-on-blue wounded per year:
2014 - 6
2013 - 29
2012 - 81
2011 - 34
2010 - 1
2009 - 11
2008 - 3
Total number of green-on-blue deaths per province:
Badghis - 5
Baghlan - 3
Balkh - 4
Farah - 2
Faryab - 2
Helmand - 34
Herat - 3
Kabul - 12
Kandahar - 17
Kapisa - 10
Kunar - 1
Laghman - 8
Nangarhar - 8
Paktia - 6
Paktika - 7
Uruzgan - 6
Wardak - 8
Zabul - 5
Unknown - 2
Total number of green-on-blue wounded per province:
Badghis - 4
Baghlan - 6
Balkh - 2
Farah - 1
Faryab - 2
Ghor - 2
Helmand - 32
Herat - 1
Kabul - 2
Kandahar - 40
Kapisa - 22
Kunar - 2
Laghman - 6
Nangarhar - 2
Paktia - 8
Paktika - 4
Uruzgan - 5
Wardak - 17
Zabul - 5
Reported fate of the attacker(s):
Killed (includes death by suicide attack and killed after fleeing) - 45
Captured - 26*
Wounded (not known if also captured) - 6
Fled after attack- 36
Escaped following capture - 1
Unknown - 3
They needs to setup “gun-free zones”; that’ll do it.
Where our guys unarmed like here in America?
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- update:
- B. Hussein Ebola Junior skipped this and promised to give $28,000,000,000 of your hard-earned tax dollars to Afreaka to boost their economy and encourage trade with the Freakin technical miracles.
- Look what Prezzy Hussein Ebola Junior has done for NASA and the missiles he is planning to give to HAMAS.
- Anyone wanna buy a friendly little Green Monkey that is alleged to be healthy and free of deadly diseases of the sexual kind or a lovely handmade spear? Best Offers may be accepted on PlayBay today….
OBAMA: Here’s what happened. ... You had a video that was released by somebody who lives here, sort of a shadowy character who — who made an extremely offensive video directed at — at Mohammed and Islam —
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- B. Hussein Ebola Junior was playing golf - and unable to comment
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It is astonishing that a General is murdered at a military training school in Afghanistan and the President says nothing. Here is what CNN says:
“President Obama was briefed about the shooting and called Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, to get more information”
This story is no more believable than the slaughter of the US ambassador in Libya.
I have been in embassies all over the world and nobody gets anywhere close to an ambassador with weapons, much less in a muslim country, on 9/11.
I am not familiar with military protocol in Afghanistan, but I have trouble imagining that a taliban terrorist can access a US Army General with a loaded weapon unless it is a set-up like Benghazi. Like the Seal team 6 helicopter crash must be. Like the destruction of 6 Harriers and a C-130 in Sept 2012.
Near as I can tell, the US military forces in Afghanistan are really only there as targets for the islamists, while dark forces siphon the protection-racket cash flow stream from the Karzai family controlled opium/heroin trade. There is no clear military mission there that protects US interests at all.
Prayers up for the dead General and his family and the other brave wounded.
Here's the pull quote:
"Retired U.S. Army Col. Jack Jacobs said these attacks usually stem from troops being disgruntled about assignments or their pay — and not because they were "planted" by the enemy."
With all due respect to the good Colonel, these events are NOT "workplace violence - disgruntled employee" situations.
I was in the NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan (NTM-A) in 2011, stationed in Kabul. We had several 'green-on-blue' incidents - such as at the airport. These guys are primarily (a) believers and infiltrators, or (b) doing this because the bad guys are threatening them or their family members - in other words, "plants by the enemy". "Pay/assignments" is pretty far down the list, no matter what the ones taken alive would tell you.
Ugh, I just realized this MG Greene is one that I knew. I’ve briefed him a bit over the years, several times for a project I was working recently when he was the deputy ASA(ALT) at the Pentagon. He was a genuinely kind person, who seemed a little soft to the casual eye, but underneath was very tough, savvy, and very intelligent. Like I didn’t hate *#*$! Muslims enough already. :-(