Murders of US soldiers by Afghan 'peace partners' have risen sharply in past 2 years says NY Times.
8/27/12, "2 U.S. soldiers killed by Afghan soldier," UPI
"A member of the Afghan army shot and killed two U.S. soldiers Monday when a dispute broke out during a joint patrol, military officials said.
The Afghan attacker was shot and killed by International Security Assistance Force soldiers in the confrontation in the Alingar district, said Lt. Col. Hagen Messer, a NATO spokesman in Kabul.
Monday's incident brings the number of coalition soldiers shot by Afghan forces -- or "green on blue" attacks -- to 42 this year, with 12 of them this month alone, The Washington Post reported.
Meanwhile, insurgents who had infiltrated the Afghan army killed 10 Afghan soldiers at a checkpoint in Helmand Province Monday, The New York Times reported.
The number of these so-called "green-on-green" attacks has risen sharply in the past two years, the Times said....
In the Taliban-controlled Kajaki district of Helmand Province, Taliban members cut the throats of 17 civilians, including two women, the Interior Ministry said....
The women were killed because they begged for the lives of the men, he said."
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Ed. note: Whatever happened to the anti-war protesters who screamed all the time for Bush to get out of Middle East wars? Obviously they were putting on an act. They're fine with wars as long as democrats are ostensibly in charge. Not that what we're doing in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is actually a war or ever has been.
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