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KABUL: Two American soldiers were killed by a member of the Afghan local police Friday in a new “green-on-blue” attack, Nato said.

The deaths take to 39 the number of international troops killed in 28 such attacks so far this year, according to Nato figures.

The attack came a week after six American troops were killed in a single day by their local colleagues and will further erode trust between foreign troops and the Afghans they work with.

“Two US Forces-Afghanistan service members died this morning as a result of an insider threat attack in (western) Farah province,” the US-led International Security Assistance Force said.

“A member of the Afghan Local Police turned his weapon against two USFOR-A service members. The attacker was shot and killed.”

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday he was “very concerned” about the rise in “insider attacks” and the impact they are having on cooperation with Afghan allies.

Some of the attacks are claimed by Taliban insurgents, who say they have infiltrated the ranks of Afghan security forces, but many are attributed to cultural differences and antagonism between local and US-led allied forces.

Nato has about 130,000 soldiers helping the Afghan government fight an insurgency by Taliban, but they are due to pull out in 2014 and are increasingly working with Afghans they are training to take over.

At least two US troops killed by Afghan policeman | DAWN.COM
 
It seems like afghan's don't want US and Nato anymore. USA should leave Afghanistan asap before a war scale slaughter starts...
 
It seems maybe some afganis are frustrated with the presence of American soldiers . I dont blame them for that . Its a signal to white house that we dont want u anymore here .
However if these incidents happen on a regular basis then its gonna fuel the early exit of nato forces from Afganistan .
 
It seems maybe some afganis are frustrated with the presence of American soldiers . I dont blame them for that . Its a signal to white house that we dont want u anymore here .
However if these incidents happen on a regular basis then its gonna fuel the early exit of nato forces from Afganistan .

The numbers of attacks on Nato forces has increased drastically since last month and there are no signs of stopping. Other articles says that taliban may have infiltrated the afghan army which i highly doubt when i see the figures of attack on Nato force.Seem like afghan have become sympathizers to Taliban and are carrying out these attacks for them.
 
The day US decided to create Afghan local police (militias) every single person criticized it even the government because we had tasted them before in 80s; good job US/NATO!

Beside 156,000 Afghan National Police (ANP) US has decide to recruit 30,000 Afghan Local Police (militias) if it goes like this Obama would not need to withdraw his soldiers because 30,000 is enough to kill all remaining 95,000 US soldiers.

ALP or local militias are jobless, thieves, thugs, former warlords, former Taliban etc.. people.
 
Policeman in Afghanistan kills two US soldiers
Two US soldiers have been shot dead by a local policeman in Afghanistan, officials for the international Nato-led force in the country say.

The policeman, reportedly a member of a local defence force being trained by international troops, was also shot and killed, officials said.

The incident happened in the western province of Farah.

It is the latest in a series of so-called "green on blue" attacks by members of the Afghan security forces.

"Two US Forces-Afghanistan service members died this morning as a result of an insider threat attack in Farah province," the US-led International Security Assistance Force was quoted by Agence-France Presse news agency as saying.

"A member of the Afghan local police turned his weapon against two USFOR-A service members. The attacker was shot and killed."

About 130,000 ("blue") coalition troops are fighting insurgents alongside 350,000 ("green") Afghans. But there is mounting concern over attacks on Nato troops by their Afghan allies.

Members of the Afghan security forces have killed at least 36 international coalition soldiers this year, in 27 incidents, officials say.

On 10 August, two separate gun attacks on Nato-led troops in southern Afghanistan left a total of six US soldiers dead.

In one an Afghan civilian employee shot three soldiers, all from the US, at a base in Helmand province.

Earlier on the same day, also in Helmand, an Afghan police officer shot three US marines after inviting them to dinner at a checkpoint.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19292745
 
The day US decided to create Afghan local police (militias) every single person criticized it even the government because we had tasted them before in 80s; good job US/NATO!

Beside 156,000 Afghan National Police (ANP) US has decide to recruit 30,000 Afghan Local Police (militias) if it goes like this Obama would not need to withdraw his soldiers because 30,000 is enough to kill all remaining 95,000 US soldiers.

ALP or local militias are jobless, thieves, thugs, former warlords, former Taliban etc.. people.

http://news.yahoo.com/another-afghan-police-attack-kills-2-us-troops-075622792.html

He killed them when they gave him a gun. And was just recently recruited and trained six days ago. That was too fast.

Another Afghan police attack kills 2 US troops

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A newly recruited Afghan village policeman opened fire on his American allies on Friday, killing two U.S. service members minutes after they handed him his official weapon in an inauguration ceremony. It was the latest in a disturbing string of attacks by Afghan security forces on the international troops training them.

Later Friday, an Afghan soldier turned his gun on foreign troops in another part of the country and wounded two of them, a spokesman for the NATO coalition said.

The attacks in the country's far west and south brought to seven the number of times that a member of the Afghan security forces — or someone wearing their uniform — has opened fire on international forces in the past two weeks.

Such assaults by allies, virtually unheard of just a few years ago, have recently escalated, killing at least 36 foreign troops so far this year. They also raise questions about the strategy to train Afghan national police and soldiers to take over security and fight insurgents after most foreign troops leave the country by the end of 2014.

The NATO-led coalition has said such attacks are anomalies stemming from personal disputes, but the supreme leader of the Taliban boasted on Thursday night that the insurgents are infiltrating the quickly expanding Afghan forces.

Friday's deadly attacker in the far western province of Farah was identified as Mohammad Ismail, a man in his 30s who had joined the Afghan Local Police just five days ago.

He opened fire during an inauguration ceremony attended by American and Afghan forces in the Kinisk village, the Farah provincial police chief Agha Noor Kemtoz said.

"As soon as they gave the weapon to Ismail to begin training, suddenly he took the gun and opened fire toward the U.S. soldiers," Kemtoz said.

Ismail was shot and killed as the coalition and Afghan forces returned fire, the police chief said.

A spokesman for the international coalition force, Jamie Graybeal, confirmed that two American service members were killed Friday by a member of the Afghan Local Police.

The ALP is different from the national police and represents a village defense force under the Ministry of Interior that is being trained by international forces, including U.S. special forces.

Graybeal gave no other details on the Farah attack other than confirming the shooter had been killed.

Kemtoz, the police chief, said the attack took place about 8 a.m., after the U.S. forces arrived in the village to train the local police. He said one Afghan National Police officer was also seriously wounded in the shooting.

Later Friday, an Afghan army soldier fired on coalition troops in the southern province of Kandahar. Two of the international troops were wounded but none was killed in that shooting, Graybeal said. He added that the soldier was shot and died later Friday of his wounds.

So far in 2012, there have been 29 attacks reported on foreign troops by Afghans they are training, compared to 11 attacks in 2011, according to an Associated Press count, and five attacks in each of the previous two years.

Seven such attacks have come in the past two weeks alone, with six American troops killed last Friday in two separate shootings in Helmand province in the south and another American killed a few days previously on a U.S. base in Paktia province in the east.

The trend raises questions about potential resentment by Afghans after more than a decade of international presence since the American-led intervention to oust the Taliban regime from power for harboring the al-Qaida terrorist leadership after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the U.S. The insider attacks also renew concern that insurgents may be infiltrating the Afghan army and police, despite intensified screening.

Insurgent infiltration or recruitment was behind only about 10 percent of this year's reported attacks on coalition forces by Afghan allies, Graybeal said earlier this week, citing investigations into attacks before those of the past week.

Graybeal insisted the deadly violence is relatively small scale compared to the nearly 340,000 Afghan security forces now being trained.

The international coalition has said that Afghan forces are increasingly able to lead operations and already have started to assume responsibility for security in areas of the country that are home to 75 percent of the Afghan population.

However, the Taliban have been quick to seize on the increasing number of attacks as a sign of Afghan rejection of foreign forces and the insurgents' own successful recruitment.

The group's supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar said Thursday night that the insurgents "have cleverly infiltrated in the ranks of the enemy" and were successfully killing a rising number of U.S.-led coalition forces.

In an email to media organizations, Omar said the plan to transfer responsibility to Afghan forces by the end of 2014 is a "deceiving drama" that the international community has orchestrated to hide its defeat.

The Taliban leader's message came on the same day that a U.S. military helicopter crashed during a firefight with insurgents in a remote area of southern Afghanistan, killing seven Americans and four Afghans in one of the deadliest air disasters of a war now into its second decade.

The Taliban claimed they gunned down the Black Hawk.
 
What worries me more is if someone on higher ranks is with this intention he could keep arming Taliban with latest tech available to NATO/ISAF/US army.
 
He killed them when they gave him a gun. And was just recently recruited and trained six days ago. That was too fast.

That's the point, the local elders always insist to let them know before recruiting any local militia but who listens? and why the hell US army is training militias? can't they leave it to local instructors and I assume their trainings are not as professional as Afghan National Police.

What worries me more is if someone on higher ranks is with this intention he could keep arming Taliban with latest tech available to NATO/ISAF/US army.

I don't think so, there is still no sign of high tech gear with Taliban in Afghanistan; it might be in some cases when they captured them but I am sure they can't keep it with them selves as they don't have permanent bases.
 
One thing the Iraq conflict should have taught us is you work with the locals. Have those getting the nix from local chiefs been getting hired?
 
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