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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan guards working for US arrested |
| 2009-06-30 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] Kabul has detained more than 40 Afghan guards, who were on the payroll of the US military, after a deadly shootout left several police officers dead. Afghanistan arrested and disarmed 41 guards employed by an international base in the southern province of Kandahar on Monday. Sources said the guards would be sent from the southern province to the capital Kabul for investigation and trial. The guards are accused of raiding the provincial prosecutor's office in the volatile region. Earlier, Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused Afghan guards, purportedly working for US coalition forces, of engaging in a gun battle that killed 10 police officers including Kandahar Police Chief Mutaiullah Khan Qateh. In a statement, Karzai demanded that the US-led troops hand over the guards involved in the incident. US forces have denied responsibility for the controversial attack, saying that no international force had been involved in the lethal shoot out. The US further called the deadly shootout an 'Afghan-on-Afghan' incident. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 It's the same incident. This is a followup article. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-06-30 07:22 |
| #1 Two seemingly different incidents the same day where Afghan guards on US payroll shoot multiple Afghan police? That seems like a pattern. Question is (given the source of the stories) whether it's a publicity pattern or a Tali-tactic. Either way it's damaging. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-06-30 06:49 |