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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore and more U.S. and Coalition troops are being Killed...by the Afghan Army
You read that correctly. From today's New York Times:
KABUL, Afghanistan American and other coalition forces here are being killed in increasing numbers by the very Afghan soldiers they fight alongside and train, in attacks motivated by deep-seated animosity between the supposedly allied forces, according to American and Afghan officers and a classified coalition report obtained by The New York Times.
A decade into the war in Afghanistan, the report makes clear that these killings have become the most visible symptom of a far deeper ailment plaguing the war effort: the contempt each side holds for the other, never mind the Taliban. The ill will and mistrust run deep among civilians and militaries on both sides, raising questions about what future role the United States and its allies can expect to play in Afghanistan.
Underscoring the danger, four French service members were killed and a number were wounded on Friday when a gunman wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon on them, according to an Afghan police official in Kapisa Province in eastern Afghanistan where the incident occurred and a Western official in Kabul, who sopke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. The Afghan police official, Asdullah Hamidi, said the shooting happened in Tagab District, an area that is viewed as dangerous and dominated by insurgent forces.
The gunman is in custody, a NATO official said.
The violence, and the failure by coalition commanders to address it, casts a harsh spotlight on the shortcomings of American efforts to build a functional Afghan Army, a pillar of the Obama administrations strategy for extricating the United States from the war in Afghanistan, said the officers and experts who helped shape the strategy.
A decade into the war in Afghanistan, the report makes clear that these killings have become the most visible symptom of a far deeper ailment plaguing the war effort: the contempt each side holds for the other, never mind the Taliban. The ill will and mistrust run deep among civilians and militaries on both sides, raising questions about what future role the United States and its allies can expect to play in Afghanistan.
Underscoring the danger, four French service members were killed and a number were wounded on Friday when a gunman wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon on them, according to an Afghan police official in Kapisa Province in eastern Afghanistan where the incident occurred and a Western official in Kabul, who sopke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. The Afghan police official, Asdullah Hamidi, said the shooting happened in Tagab District, an area that is viewed as dangerous and dominated by insurgent forces.
The gunman is in custody, a NATO official said.
The violence, and the failure by coalition commanders to address it, casts a harsh spotlight on the shortcomings of American efforts to build a functional Afghan Army, a pillar of the Obama administrations strategy for extricating the United States from the war in Afghanistan, said the officers and experts who helped shape the strategy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/world/asia/afghan-soldiers-step-up-killings-of-allied-forces.html?_r=1&hp
Get.
The Fuck.
Out.
NOW!
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More and more U.S. and Coalition troops are being Killed...by the Afghan Army (Original Post)
DeathToTheOil
Jan 2012
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DCBob
(24,689 posts)1. This could be the incentive to get out sooner than later.
We have done as much as we can do there. Its time to get out.
DeathToTheOil
(1,124 posts)2. I agree: Bring them all home
Including the 920 Canadian troops still in country.
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)3. Obviously, they're ready to take over that task from us.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)4. FUBAR. We lost. Get out. Get over it.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)5. Deep-seated animosity? Whaaaaa?
Why don't those backwards-ass goatherders love us? Looks like we'll just have to keep on keeping on until they do.
bigtree
(85,917 posts)6. France has suspended their military operations there
. . . saying they wanted more guarantees for the safety of their soldiers.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/France-Suspends-Afghan-Military-Operations--137749718.html
bikebloke
(5,260 posts)7. UK tropps, too
Last night, the BBC reported that UK troops were being fired upon by Afghans. Afghanistan is not called the graveyard of empires for nothing.