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FarCenter

(19,429 posts) Fri Aug 10, 2012, 01:10 PM Aug 2012

Afghan police chief kills US soldiers invited to dinner

The Americans were killed after being invited to dinner to discuss security in Sangin district of Helmand on Thursday evening.

The shooting was at least the third incident this week where Afghan forces have opened fire on foreign forces.

Thursday night's shooting appeared to be a carefully planned attack, Afghan officials said.

American special forces soldiers had been invited to break the Ramadan fast at a house in the Sarwan Qala area by a police commander called Assadullah.

During the meal they came under fire.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9466338/Afghan-police-chief-kills-US-soldiers-invited-to-dinner.html

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Afghan police chief kills US soldiers invited to dinner (Original Post) FarCenter Aug 2012 OP

A cleverly-executed, uh, special op rocktivity Aug 2012 #1

Bullets disguised as flowers and candy no doubt. Citizen Worker Aug 2012 #2

Why are we still there? Zax2me Aug 2012 #3

rocktivity

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1. A cleverly-executed, uh, special op

Reply to FarCenter (Original post)

Fri Aug 10, 2012, 01:23 PM

Aug 2012

"During dinner, the police commander and his colleagues shot them and then fled..." a senior Afghan official told the Reuters news agency.

Another district official, however, suggested that the Afghan police had not fired the fatal shots, but had tipped off nearby Taliban fighters who had arrived to kill the Americans.

And a spokeswoman for American forces in Afghanistan said it was too early to say if the killer was a rogue member of the Afghan forces, or an infiltrator in disguise...

And a very unpleasant reminder that we don't have the market cornered on pulling off special ops...