Monday, April 30, 2012
Panetta's non-trend is worse than reported.
That would be the not-a-trend of Afghan BFF's shooting NATO troops that Sec. Panetta said does not exist. And to help you believe this not-a-trend the brass asses in the Pentagon have decided to under report the number of incidents.
The U.S.-led coalition routinely reports each time an American or foreign soldier is killed by an Afghan in uniform. But The Associated Press has learned it does not report insider attacks in which the Afghan wounds — or misses — his U.S. or allied target. It also doesn’t report the wounding of troops who were attacked alongside those who were killed.If they are not dead, no harm, no foul. And then you don't have to worry about why we are wasting lives and money in that shithole. What with basketball and hockey in playoff modes and baseball season underway you have so much more to think about.
Such attacks reveal a level of mistrust and ill will between the U.S.-led coalition and its Afghan counterparts in an increasingly unpopular war. The U.S. and its military partners are working more closely with Afghan troops in preparation for handing off security responsibility to them by the end of 2014.
In recent weeks an Afghan soldier opened fire on a group of American soldiers but missed the group entirely. The Americans quickly shot him to death. Not a word about this was reported by the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, as the coalition is formally known. It was disclosed to the AP by a U.S. official who was granted anonymity in order to give a fuller picture of the “insider” problem.
ISAF also said nothing about last week’s attack in which two Afghan policemen in Kandahar province fired on U.S. soldiers, wounding two. Reporters learned of it from Afghan officials and from U.S. officials in Washington. The two Afghan policemen were shot to death by the Americans present.
h/t Labrys
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