Thursday, March 01, 2012
Two more dead because of political failure
From the NY Times:
Another two United States soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday when an Afghan soldier in league with a civilian Afghan literacy instructor killed a tower guard and attacked with gunfire and a rocket the barracks where American soldiers were sleeping at a joint base in the south of the country, officials said.It's getting to the point that the only Afghans you can trust are dead Afghans. And even a failed politician knows that is a true sign it is time to leave, no questions asked.
The killings follow the shooting deaths of four American soldiers last week, including two at the Afghan Interior Ministry, after the outbreak of nationwide protests in reaction to the burning of Korans at a NATO base in Afghanistan.
Four other Americans were injured in the attack on Thursday, which took place in pre-dawn hours around 2.30 a.m. local time at a joint Afghan-NATO base in Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan.
The two shooters fled but American forces called in air support, and the two men were killed by helicopter gunfire more than a mile from the base, said Masoom Khan, the chief of police of the Zhari district in Kandahar Province where the attack took place.
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