More blood on Obama's hands, two more American soldiers shot in cold blood by uniformed Afghan police 'peace partner'

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8/17/12, "The U.S. military trainers handed the new recruit, Mohammad Ismail, his AK-47 to defend his remote Afghan village. He turned around and immediately used it, spraying the Americans with bullets and killing two—the latest of nine U.S. service personnel gunned down in two weeks by their supposed Afghan allies. "The shooting in western Farah province was not the only such attack Friday. Hours later...in Kandahar, an Afghan soldier wounded two more coalition servicemen."...
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8/17/12, "Policeman in Afghanistan kills two US soldiers," BBC

"Two US soldiers have been shot dead by a local policeman in Afghanistan, officials for the international Nato-led force in the country say.

The policeman, reportedly a member of a local defence force being trained by international troops, was also shot and killed, officials said.

The incident happened in the western province of Farah.

It is the latest in a series of so-called "green on blue" attacks by members of the Afghan security forces.

"Two US Forces-Afghanistan service members died this morning as a result of an insider threat attack in Farah province," the US-led International Security Assistance Force was quoted by Agence-France Presse news agency as saying.

About 130,000 ("blue") coalition troops are fighting insurgents alongside 350,000 ("green") Afghans. But there is mounting concern over attacks on Nato troops by their Afghan allies.

Members of the Afghan security forces have killed at least 36 international coalition soldiers this year, in 27 incidents, officials say.

On 10 August, two separate gun attacks on Nato-led troops in southern Afghanistan left a total of six US soldiers dead.

In one an Afghan civilian employee shot three soldiers, all from the US, at a base in Helmand province.

Earlier on the same day, also in Helmand, an Afghan police officer shot three US marines after inviting them to dinner at a checkpoint."

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8/16/12, "Army suicides hit a new single-month record in July, when 38 active-duty and reserve soldiers took their own lives, according to official figures released Thursday.

• The toll, up from 24 in June."...Politico

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8/17/12, "Infiltration or bad blood behind Afghan attacks?" AP, Kay Johnson

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