U.S. LOST THE IED WAR

"... an ...  important story has been quietly unfolding: the U.S. loss of the pivotal war of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to the Taliban... the U.S. troop surge could not reverse the very steep increase in IED attacks and attendant casualties that the Taliban began in 2009... the Pentagon’s Joint IED Defeat Organisation (JIEDDO)... spent more than 18 billion dollars on high-tech solutions aimed at detecting IEDs before they went off... (but) the Taliban simply produced and planted even larger numbers of bombs to continue to increase the pressure of the IED war...
"The counterinsurgency strategy devised by Gen. David Petraeus... pushed thousands of U.S. troops out of their armoured vehicles into (dismounted) patrols on foot in order to establish relationships with the local population... The main effect of the strategy, however, was a major jump in the number of “catastrophic” injuries to U.S. troops from IEDs...

"A June 2011 Army task force report described a new type of battle injury – “Dismount Complex Blast Injury”– defined as a combination of “traumatic amputation of at least one leg, a minimum of severe injury to another extremity, and pelvic, abdominal, or urogenital wounding”... the number of triple limb amputations in 2010 alone had been twice the total in the previous eight years of war..."

http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/10/how-the-u-s-quietly-lost-the-ied-war-in-afghanistan/

AFGHAN GOV'T COULD COLLAPSE AFTER NATO LEAVES

"A new report on Afghanistan warns that the departure of Nato forces in 2014 could be followed by the government's collapse and even civil war... (because) the Afghan police and army are unprepared for security responsibility..." 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19868043>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19868043

AFGHAN CASUALTIES OUTNUMBER U.S. BY 10:1


"As 2,000th American soldier killed in Afghanistan makes headlines, estimates put Afghan civilian dead at over 20,000... for every US soldier killed in a war that fewer and fewer seem willing to defend or explain, ten innocent Afghan civilians—doing their best to go about their under constant violent threat—are killed in war that eleven years later shows no sign of ending."

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/30

JOINT PATROLS CURBED
U. S. anti-Islam film part of reason

"Nato says it is restricting operations with Afghan troops following a string of deadly attacks on its personnel by rogue Afghan security forces... Fifty-one Nato troops have been killed by Afghan soldiers so far this year - 15 in August alone... Only large operations will now be conducted jointly, with joint patrols evaluated on a case-by-case basis... "events outside of and inside Afghanistan" related to the anti-Islam film were part of the reason for its restrictions on joint operations..."

http://bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19632779

LAST GASP OF THE INSURGENCY

"US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has described attacks by members of the Afghan security forces on coalition troops as the Taliban's "last gasp".
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19627164

Reminiscent of...
"We feel right now that we have, as I mentioned, broken the back of the insurgency."
--Marine Lt. Gen. John Sattler, Nov. 18, 2004, after the U.S.-led offensive against Fallujah in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0523-22.htm

NATO AIRSTRIKE KILLS 8 WOMEN

"A NATO airstrike has killed at least 8 women and girls and injured at least 7 females in the eastern province of Laghman while they were collecting firewood..."

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/16-0>http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/16-0

INSIDER ATTACK KILLS 4 U.S. TROOPS, WOUNDS 2

"Four American soldiers and an Afghan police officer have been killed in southern Afghanistan following an attack suspected to involve members of the Afghan police... four soldiers were found dead and two wounded... All six casualties were understood to be members of the US special forces..."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/09/201291643935935407.html>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/09/201291643935935407.html

ATTACK ON BRITISH AIRFIELD

"... the insurgents who attacked a British airfield in southwestern Afghanistan on Friday, killing two U.S. Marines, wore U.S. Army uniforms and destroyed six Harrier fighter jets... about 15 insurgents carried out the attack... Fourteen of the 15 were killed. One was captured... Besides destroying six planes, they destroyed three refueling stations on the base and damaged six aircraft hangars... Eight military members and one civilian contractor were also injured in the assault..."

http://news.yahoo.com/attackers-afghanistan-wore-us-uniforms-010844344.html>http://news.yahoo.com/attackers-afghanistan-wore-us-uniforms-010844344.html

"An audacious Taliban attack on a heavily fortified base in southern Afghanistan did far more damage than initially reported, destroying or severely damaging eight attack jets in the most destructive single strike on Western matériel in the 11-year war... causing more than $200 million in damage... Six of the jets, which each cost between $23 million and $30 million when they were first acquired by the United States Navy... were completely destroyed and two more were so severely damaged it was unlikely they could be repaired. Also badly damaged were three refueling stations and three soft-skinned aircraft hangars..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/world/asia/green-on-blue-attacks-in-afghanistan-continue.html?_r=2

GREEN ON BLUE KILLINGS: AFGHANS STUNG BY U.S. SUBJUGATION

"... Afghans are killing Western troops because the US and NATO are in occupation of their country. The Taliban does not need to "infiltrate" the Afghan National Army or the Afghan National Police. Every Afghan knows they are occupied; every Afghan feels keenly the embarrassed sting of subjugation... The Afghans are saying: "You have invaded my country, occupied it for more than ten years, killed thousands of us, and you can’t even respect my religion when I am working for you?"...

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/2012910101359505641.html>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/2012910101359505641.html

NO WOMENS' RIGHTS TO PROTECT
The fate of TV actresses in the capitol

"... prominent American women claim American forces are necessary in Afghanistan to protect the gains made in woman’s rights.... 3 women in Kabul were attacked by a group of men because of their work as television actresses. One of the women was murdered. After seeking treatment at the hospital, the two survivors were taken to prison, where they face intrusive virginity tests and possible charges of prostitution or collusion in the attack. They face long prison sentences. This is not the Taliban; this is woman’s rights in Afghanistan today..."

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/11>http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/11

"The hatred of the people here is the reason she was killed, I am 100% sure."
--Yaqin Ali Khalili, owner of a shop that the women frequented.
"We have already sent them to the forensic office to do an examination, to make clear whether these girls are having illegal relations with anyone," said prosecutor Ghulam Dastegir Hedayat, responsible for western Kabul, where the killing took place..."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/06/afghanistan-attack-female-actors>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/06/afghanistan-attack-female-actors

AFGHANS TURN AGAINST U.S.
General explains

"... A 15-year-old “tea boy” at a U.S. base opened fire on Marine special forces trainers exercising at a gym, killing three of them and seriously wounding another; a 60- or 70-year-old farmer, who volunteered to become a member of a village security force, turned the first gun his American special forces trainers gave him at an “inauguration ceremony” back on them, killing two; a police officer who, his father claims, joined the force four years earlier, invited Marine Special Operations advisers to a meal and gunned down three of them, wounding a fourth, before fleeing, perhaps to the Taliban."
"General Allen... suggested... some insider attacks might be traced to religious fasting for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, combined with unseasonable summer heat, leaving Afghans hungry, tetchy, and prone to impulsive acts, guns in hand."
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175587/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_losing_it_in_washington/

NON JUDICIAL PUNISHMENT FOR URINATING ON CORPSES




"Despoiling of the dead is illegal under the Geneva conventions as well as under US military law.... (Yet) Three of the Marines involved in the video that surfaced in January of soldiers urinating on the corpses of Afghans have received "nonjudicial punishment" on Monday for their roles in the incident. Because they received "nonjudicial punishment," their names do not have to be released. There are no criminal charges; the military describes it as "an administrative matter.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/27-8

ANGELS TO PROTECT TRAINERS AGAINST ATTACKS BY AFGHAN TRAINEES

"... after a spate of attacks that included the killing of six Marine trainers this month.... the military decreed that American and NATO service members should always carry a loaded magazine in their weapons, to save precious moments if attacked by Afghan forces. Another initiative, now a priority, is a program named “Guardian Angel” that calls for one or two soldiers to monitor the Afghans during every mission or meeting... The “angels,” whose identities are not disclosed to the Afghans, must be prepared to fire on anyone who tries to kill a coalition service member...
"Only a handful of the 31 attacks this year have clearly been a result of Taliban activity like infiltration. That suggests a level of malaise or anger within the Afghan forces that could complicate NATO’s training program, which relies on trust and cooperation... the military is realizing that it ultimately does not fully understand what is driving the attacks..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/world/asia/afghan-attacks-on-allied-troops-prompt-nato-to-shift-policy.html?_r=2

U.S. HELPS REWRITE AFGHAN SCHOOLBOOKS

"Afghanistan's.. education ministry has endorsed a new history curriculum for school students that deletes nearly four decades of the country's war-torn past... not much mention of (the Taliban) or the US-led forces that drove them from power and have stayed for more than a decade... the civil war and the Taliban regime had been wrapped up in just a few lines... US military officials say they had no discussions on content in the books, some of which were paid for with US money. But a spokesman for the US military in Kabul, David Lakin, added: ''Our cultural advisers reviewed the social studies textbooks for inappropriate material, such as inciting violence or religious discrimination."
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18579315

... TO COUNTERACT PREVIOUS U.S. SCHOOLBOOKS

"Taliban in Madrassas with texts our taxes designed.... Look up texts our taxes spawned at University of Nebraska Omaha. Hate texts, illegally pushing one established religion, and glorifying murderous warfare for Allah. Delivered to Afghanistan Taliban to create militant terrorists. The neocon plan was to aim them at "godless communists." Another "initiative" that started what we cannot now stop. No exit plan."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/23/260889/-School-Vouchers-create-Madrassas-here

"... during the presidency of Ronald Reagan — when all vision was still focused on the Cold War — the United States got itself into the business of sponsoring militant Islamic schools for Afghanistan, then a nation under the influence of the Soviet Union... The U.S. Agency for International Development was funding the foreign aid program that was essentially schooling this new generation of terrorists...
The plan: Flood rural Afghanistan with millions of schoolbooks preaching and teaching Islamic militancy. Books reportedly filled with language celebrating jihad (holy war), violent images of war... Primers from which boys learned math by counting pictures of soldiers, tanks, guns and land mines.
The purpose: Create a generation of militant Islamic freedom fighters — another term might be terrorists — who would rise up and run the godless Soviet communist forces out of Afghanistan. Which they did. Then they stuck around."
http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3453

AFGAN ATTACKS ON US - MISSION FAILURE

"Trend of Afghan soldiers killing US counterparts speaks to 'mission failure' in Afghanistan... a US war strategy in tatters... a sweeping message from our Afghan allies... "your mission’s failed, get out or die."
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/10

KABUL EMBASSY TO BE LARGER THAN BAGDAD

"... The building project going on is apparently part of a massive expansion of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, targeted to have it surpass the embassy in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, as the largest U.S. Embassy - in the world..."
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/08-1


$500M KABUL EMBASSY EXPANSION

"The United States is bolstering its presence in Afghanistan with a 500 million dollar expansion of its Kabul embassy... Washington's Kabul embassy is already its biggest in the world, with about 1,100 employees, projected to rise to 1,200 by the end of the year..."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hmuDhk6gDGOjUtRZAT866kfUXV8g

PAKISTAN TO DEPORT AFGHAN REFUGEES

"Pakistan is preparing to send 400,000 Afghan refugees back across the border to war-torn Afghanistan... In addition to the immediate planned deportations, Pakistan may send back almost 3 million refugees within the year, a move that... could further destabilize Afghanistan, straining its economy and challenging its fledgling security forces... The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has called the situation the "largest and most protracted refugee crisis in the world."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/29/pakistan-afghanistan-refugees_n_1637154.html

NATO STRIKE KILLS FAMILY WITH 6 CHILDREN

"... eight members of a family have been killed after an airstrike by the US-led NATO coalition... the Paktia provincial government said on Sunday that a man, a woman and their six children were killed... in Suri Khail village of Gurda Saria district. "This man had no connection to the Taliban or any other terrorist group... Mohammad Shafi was not a Taliban. He was not in any opposition group against the government. He was a villager."
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/05/20125277911748807.html

OBAMA SNEAKS IN TO ESTABLISH AN AFGHAN OKINAWA

"In the fortified but chronically battle-ravaged capital city of Kabul, the only city in Afghanistan where, backed by the U.S. military, Hamid Karzai actually governs... a seemingly fearful Obama, arriving by night, sneaked into the unlit city with its overflowing sewage and vanishing water table to sign the "Enduring Strategic Partnership" agreement...

In the Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement, under point six of Section III, which is entitled Advanced Long-Term Security, we read that “Afghanistan shall provide U.S. personnel continued access to and use of Afghan facilities through 2014, and beyond as may be agreed in the Bilateral Security Agreement, for the purposes of combating al-Qaeda and its affiliates, training the Afghan Security Forces and other mutually determined missions to advance shared security interests."

Instead of withdrawing all U.S. troops, the ‘….continued access to and use of Afghan facilities through 2014, and beyond…’ are plans to establish an 'Afghan Okinawa'..."

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/09-7

U.S. TROOP ACTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

"The Los Angeles Times released a set of photos on Wednesday that appear to show U.S. troops in Afghanistan posing with the remains of suicide bombers... soldiers posed with Afghan police holding the severed legs of an insurgent bombers. Two soldiers in another frame held a dead insurgent's hand with the middle finger raised... In January, a video of U.S. Marines urinating on dead bodies of Taliban members sparked outrage. The burning of Qurans at a NATO airbase in February spurred week-long riots that killed dozens. In March, a U.S. army sergeant allegedly massacred 17 civilians in Afghanistan..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/us-soldiers-suicide-bomber-photo_n_1433785.html

U.S. TO PAY AFGHANISTAN >$2.7 BILLION FOR >10 YEARS

"... draft agreement was worked out and initialed by Afghan National Security Adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker. It must still be reviewed in both countries and signed afterward by the Afghan and American presidents... Americans will provide military and financial support to the Afghan people for at least a decade beyond 2014... the U.S. is expected to maintain a large presence in the country for years after, including special forces, military trainers and government-assistance programs..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/22/afghanistan-war-strategic-pact_n_1443821.html

"... the United States expects to make substantial contributions toward the cost of Afghanistan’s security forces beyond 2014. A total figure for the United States of $2.7 billion a year has been discussed, and it could easily be more; there would most likely be aid for civilian programs as well..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/world/asia/us-and-afghanistan-reach-partnership-agreement.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp

COST OF FUEL

"... last November... Pakistani officials slammed that country’s border crossings shut on American and NATO war supplies. Those crossings have yet to reopen... there were brief reports indicating that the costs of shipping some items had gone up by a factor of six, depending on the route chosen. Back in 2009, it was estimated that a gallon of fuel cost $400 or more by the time it reached the U.S. military in Afghanistan, and that was by the cheaper Pakistani route. How much is it now? $600, $800, $2,400?"
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/20-1

KARZAI WANTS $2 BILLION PER YEAR AFTER WITHDRAWAL
... a strategic partnership

"Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday said he wanted "at least $2 billion" a year from the United States after it withdraws its troops in 2014... "We want them to write down that America will give for Afghanistan's security $2 billion a year -- or at least two billion a year", he said. "If they want to give us more, they are welcome."
http://news.yahoo.com/karzai-wants-least-2-billion-us-141710318.html

U.S. CEDES NIGHT RAIDS TO AFGHAN FORCES

"The U.S. and Afghanistan signed a deal Sunday giving Afghans authority over raids of Afghan homes... a panel of Afghan security officials get authority to decide what raids will take place... Afghan forces will conduct home searches and that U.S. forces will be allowed to enter private compounds "only as required or requested"... the Afghan government will immediately take custody of detainees. The U.S. will only interrogate detainees if asked by the Afghans...
http://news.yahoo.com/afghans-us-sign-deal-night-raids-111707350.html

U.S. SOLDIER KILLS 16 CIVILIANS, INCLUDING 9 CHILDREN

"Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically killed at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children... igniting fears of a new wave of anti-American hostility... the sergeant was attached to a unit... called a village stabilization operation... to develop close ties with village elders... the soldier, who had walked more than a mile from his base, tried door after door, eventually breaking in to kill within three separate houses. At the first, the man gathered 11 bodies, including those of 4 girls younger than 6, and set fire to them... after a period of deepening public outrage, spurred by the Koran burning by American personnel last month and an earlier video showing American Marines urinating on dead militants, the apparently unprovoked killings added to a feeling of siege here among Western personnel..."
>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/world/asia/afghanistan-civilians-killed-american-soldier-held.html?_r=1&hp

"... The burning of the bodies may ignite even more outrage because it is seen as the desecration of corpses and therefore against Islam... Afghan officials and local villagers expressed doubt that a single U.S. soldier could have carried out all the killings in houses about a mile (2 kilometers) apart and burned the bodies afterward... "It is not possible for only one American soldier to come out of his base, kill a number of people far away, burn the bodies, go to another house and kill civilians there, then walk at least 2 kilometers and enter another house, kill civilians and burn them"... The Taliban vowed revenge..."
http://news.yahoo.com/taliban-vow-revenge-afghans-killed-us-troop-081654645.html

KORAN BURNING AND VENGEANCE

"The Taliban exhorted Afghans Thursday to attack and kill foreign troops to avenge the burning of Korans at a US-run base…"
http://news.yahoo.com/anti-us-protests-rage-third-day-afghanistan-052937732.html

"The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan called on his troops to resist any urge to avenge the death of two American soldiers killed in riots over the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base… (saying) “Now is not the time for revenge. Now is not the time for vengeance. Now is the time to look deep inside your souls, remember your mission, remember your discipline, remember who you are.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/top-nato-general-calls-for-afghan-restraint-over-quran-burnings-says-investigation-continues/2012/02/24/gIQAAuCFXR_story.html

FALLOUT FROM KORAN BURNING

"Two American officers were shot dead at close range inside Afghanistan's Interior Ministry on Saturday, a U.S. official said, as rage gripped the country for a fifth day over the burning of the Muslim holy book at a NATO base. NATO recalled all staff working at ministries in the Afghan capital Kabul following the attack..."
http://news.yahoo.com/one-killed-fifth-day-afghanistan-protests-074940486.html

"The potential scope of the fallout from the burning of several copies of the Koran by American military personnel this week became chillingly clear on Thursday as a man in an Afghan Army uniform shot and killed two American soldiers, while a crowd nearby protested the desecration of the Muslim holy book... some of Mr. Karzai’s allies in Parliament... have openly encouraged people to take to the streets and attack NATO forces... The Taliban released two statements on Thursday: one urged Afghans to attack foreign troops and installations as well as Afghan forces who are defending them, and the second urged Afghan security forces to turn their guns on their NATO colleagues..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/world/asia/koran-burning-afghanistan-demonstrations.html?_r=2

DETAILS OF KORAN BURNING

"... a dump truck escorted by a military vehicle drove up to the landfill at Bagram Air Base. Some of the 20 or so Afghans working in the landfill section said that two uniformed American soldiers, a man and a woman, began unloading bags of books out of the back of the truck and throwing them into a pit for incineration... the soldiers attempting to burn the texts were oblivious to the significance of what they were doing. They made no attempt to hide the fires, instead appearing to be routinely carrying out their duties...

"Afghans working in the landfill section said... "we attacked them with our yellow helmets, and tried to stop them, we rushed towards them and we threw our helmets at the vehicles... saying, “‘Don’t burn our holy book, we will give it to our mullahs!’”

"... protests began hours later, as Afghan workers who had witnessed the incident emerged from the base, one or two of them carrying damaged Korans hidden in their clothes..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/world/asia/nato-commander-apologizes-for-koran-disposal-in-afghanistan.html?_r=2

BURNING OF QURANS AT U.S. BASE

"Troops on the U.S.' largest base in Afghanistan have inadvertently burned Qurans and other religious materials, triggering angry protests and fears of even larger demonstrations as news of the burning spreads. The books were mistakenly thrown out with the trash at Bagram Air Field north of Kabul and were on a burn pile... Ahmad Zaki Zahed, the chief of the provincial council, said 60 to 70 books had been recovered from the fire, including Qurans that were once used by detainees at the base. "Some were all burned. Some were half-burned."
http://news.yahoo.com/quran-burning-u-sparks-afghan-protests-132458731--abc-news.html

SHEPHERD CHILDREN KILLED BY NATO AIRSTRIKE

"Eight youths, tending their flock of sheep in the snowy fields of Afghanistan, were exterminated last week by a NATO airstrike. They were in the Najrab district of Kapisa province in eastern Afghanistan. Most were reportedly between the ages of 6 and 14. They had sought shelter near a large boulder, and had built a fire to stay warm. At first, NATO officials claimed they were armed men. The Afghan government condemned the bombing and released photos of some of the victims. By Wednesday, NATO offered, in a press release, “deep regret to the families and loved ones of several Afghan youths who died during an air engagement in Kapisa province Feb. 8.”
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_afghan_wars_nine_lives_20120215/

MILITARY LEADERS MISLEADING ABOUT SITUATION IN AFGHANISTAN

"Senior ranking U.S. military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the U.S. Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable." That’s the assessment of a damning new report by Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, who returned in October from his second year-long deployment in Afghanistan and says military officials have misled the American public about how poorly the decade-long war is going..."
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/15/army_whistleblower_lt_col_daniel_davis

WAR SUPPLY COST SOARS

"The U.S. is paying six times as much to send war supplies to troops in Afghanistan through alternate routes after Pakistan's punitive decision in November to close border crossings to NATO convoys... it is now costing about $104 million per month to send the supplies through a longer northern route. That is $87 million more per month than when the cargo moved through Pakistan..."
http://news.yahoo.com/us-costs-soar-war-supply-routes-220821812.html

"At the moment, with the cheaper Pakistani routes to Afghanistan cut off by that country’s government... it’s estimated that the cost of resupplying U.S. troops there has risen six-fold... before that route was shut down, a single gallon of fuel for U.S. troops cost at least $400!..."
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/14-7

U.S. IN PEACE TALKS WITH INSURGENTS

"... a representative and son-in-law of longtime Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar... (said) that he had met separately with David Petraeus, former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan who is now CIA director, and had face-to-face discussions earlier this month with U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen, currently the top commander in the country... the discussions show that the U.S. knows that... any peace deal would have to be supported by Hekmatyar, who has thousands of fighters and followers primarily in the north and east...

"The U.S. formally declared Hekmatyar a "global terrorist" in 2003 because of alleged links to al-Qaida... He declared war on foreign troops in his country and rebuilt his military forces, which by 2008 had become a major threat to the U.S.-led coalition..."

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-us-talks-afghan-insurgent-group-184848900.html

AFGHAN SOLDIER KILLS 4 FRENCH, WOUNDS 16

"Four French soldiers have been killed in northern Afghanistan after a serviceman from the Afghan National Army opened fire... Another 16 French soldiers were injured, some seriously... the French soldiers shot dead were unarmed and were "literally murdered"... France was suspending its training programmes in Afghanistan following the attack... there has been an increasing number of incidents involving Afghan soldiers turning their weapons on Nato forces..."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-asia-16645251