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| NATO contractor killed in Afghan 'insider attack': Officials |
| 2013-03-09 |
| [Al Ahram] A NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... civilian contractor was killed by three people wearing Afghan security force uniforms on Friday in the latest suspected "insider attack" to target the international military coalition. "The civilian died when three individuals wearing Afghan uniforms and driving an Afghan security force vehicle forced their way into the base in eastern Afghanistan," a front man for the NATO-led force said. The front man said that all three of the attackers were killed by Afghan and ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) troops but added that no other details were available as an assessment of the attack was still under way. Afghan officials, who declined to be named, said the incident occurred in the Tagab district of Kapisa province. NATO soldiers are fighting alongside Afghan colleagues to thwart Talibs, but more than 60 foreign soldiers were killed in 2012 in "insider attacks" that have bred mistrust and threatened to derail the training process. If the attackers are confirmed to be Afghan soldiers or police, it would be the first insider attack since January when a British soldier was rubbed out by an Afghan soldier in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province. A text message from the Taliban did not claim responsibility for Friday's attack but claimed that two Afghan army soldiers had killed nine American soldiers. |
| Posted by:Fred |