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2008-10-17 Afghanistan

Afghan policeman fires on US patrol, kills soldier

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Posted by ed 2008-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The soldiers returned fire, killing the officer

Good policy. Better policy would be killed by gutshot. Best would be death due to delayed medical response to gutshot due to a deniable overabundance of caution.

Posted by gorb 2008-10-17 01:19|| 2008-10-17 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 as long as another one is dead, by the way, this has nothing too do with the article but them always calling others civilians. those civilians support the insurgents and the kiddies grow up too be more insurgents

Posted by chris 2008-10-17 07:54|| 2008-10-17 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Leopard. Spots.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-10-17 09:36|| 2008-10-17 09:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm curious about these Afghan police who turn on US soldiers. It seems certain to me that they intend to die for their efforts. Did they join the police with a small-scale suicide as their primary mission? Or did they hope to gain valuable information. or what? To try to kill at most 3 or 4 of their enemy for their own life seems inefficient to me. Surely, they could wait for mess hall times, field meeting times, riding with the troops times and others that might provide a greater potential target. Does anyone reading this have an idea of the profile(s) for these idiots?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-10-17 12:19|| 2008-10-17 12:19|| Front Page Top

#5 that is their profile. they are idiots

Posted by chris 2008-10-17 17:01|| 2008-10-17 17:01|| Front Page Top

#6 my take on this (pure speculation) is that the Afghan policeman may have been confused as to who was approaching/moving and had not gotten the info that the group he fired on was friendlies. for all intents, he could have believed he was engaging a Taliban patrol and just made a poor decision.

the other suggested motives here are equally likely, but my personal motto is "never attribute to malice what is easily explained by stupidity"

Posted by Abu do you love 2008-10-17 18:44|| 2008-10-17 18:44|| Front Page Top

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