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| US moves to end 'insider' killings |
| 2012-08-19 |
| AFTER months of military leaders' attempts to curb killings of coalition troops by the Afghan forces serving beside them, US general John Allen, the top commander in Afghanistan, called an urgent meeting of his generals last week to address the rising death toll after the killing of six US Marines trainers on August 10. In a series of recent steps, the military decreed that US and NATO service members should always carry a loaded magazine in their weapons. Another initiative is a program dubbed ''Guardian Angel'' that calls for one or two soldiers to monitor the Afghans during every mission or meeting, officials say. The ''angels'', whose identities are not disclosed to the Afghans, must be prepared to fire on anyone who tries to kill a coalition service member. The military has also analysed the so-called ''green on blue'' attacks, discovering that only a handful have clearly been due to Taliban activity - a worrying development that suggests a malaise within the Afghan forces that raises the risk that personal rivalries and cultural clashes could complicate the NATO training program. The ''insider attacks'' come at a politically delicate time, just months before a US presidential election and amid increasingly vocal complaints from parents of dead marines and soldiers that could diminish support among Americans for what is already an unpopular war. In the 48 hours after General Allen's emergency session, there were two more such attacks. Those assaults left two Special Forces trainers dead and two other US soldiers wounded. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 I expect to see the good General called back to DC or 'reassigned' or some other demotion when the next attempt occurs and our guys shoot the 'friendly' Afghans. You don't really expect Bambi and his minions (including the current bobbleheaded SecDec Pointsetta) to allow this type of behaviour, do you? And oh yeah, expect the GIs to be either quckly arrested of shot in the 'crossfire.' |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2012-08-19 21:01 |
| #2 Start handing afghans guns loaded with blanks. If they shoot or check the rounds; shot them. |
| Posted by: airandee 2012-08-19 15:15 |
| #1 How about you have a "friendly fire accident" with the village the shooter came from? I guarantee, a couple of such "accidents" will end this sort of attacks. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-08-19 14:28 |