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| Peacekeepers Shot, Wounded in Afghanistan | ||
| 2003-05-13 | ||
| Two Norwegian peacekeepers were shot and wounded north of the capital Tuesday by a renegade Afghan soldier, an Afghan commander in the area said. The peacekeepers were traveling between Kabul and Bagram - where U.S. and coalition forces have their main base - when shots were fired at their vehicle shortly after noon, said Lt. Col. Thomas Lobbering, a spokesman for the 5,000-strong multinational force. A commander in the Afghan army's 591st Battalion said the gunman was identified by a fellow soldier who witnessed the shooting. "It was an Afghan soldier. He was crying and he just opened fire and ran away," said Nanga Elai, whose battalion is about 12 miles north of Kabul, where the shooting occurred. Humm, must of had money on the Celtics The battalion commander, Amanullah, who gave only one name, said the suspect belonged to the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance force that took control of Afghanistan when U.S.-led coalition bombing drove the religious militia from power in late 2001. Elai and Amanullah said there was no explanation for the shooting. "Beats me"
"One is seriously injured and the other has minor injuries. Both are at a German field hospital. They are considering whether to send the seriously injured one to a hospital in Germany," Foreign Ministry spokesman Eirik Bergesen said. The victims were part of a civilian-military team helping rebuild a school about nine miles north of Kabul, said Lt. Col. Dietmar Jeserich of the German military's Foreign Operations Command.
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| Posted by:Steve |