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riversedge

(70,220 posts) Sat Jun 17, 2017, 10:50 AM Jun 2017

Four US soldiers shot dead in apparent insider attack, Afghan official says

Source: Reuters

US military command in Kabul confirms it is ‘aware of an incident’ at Camp Shaheen, headquarters of 209th Corps in northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif

An Afghan soldier mans a checkpoint in Jalalabad. Photograph: Ghulamullah Habibi/EPA

Reuters in Kabul

Saturday 17 June 2017 09.24 EDT

At least four American soldiers were shot and killed in an apparent insider attack by an Afghan soldier at a base in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, a military official said.

“An Afghan soldier shot and killed four American troops inside the base,” said Abdul Qahar Araam, spokesman for the Afghan army’s 209th Corps. “We are investigating.”

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Three Americans were killed by an Afghan soldier in Nangahar province last weekend. On Thursday, a Trump administration official was reported to have said 4,000 more US troops would be sent to the country.......................

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/17/four-us-soldiers-killed-afghanistan-camp-shaheen

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Four US soldiers shot dead in apparent insider attack, Afghan official says (Original Post) riversedge Jun 2017 OP

Prayers TEB Jun 2017 #1

If prayer worked Skittles Jun 2017 #8

US is denying that account from Afghan army's 209th Corps, Historic NY Jun 2017 #2

good news. Hope it is true riversedge Jun 2017 #3

Reuters: Seven U.S. soldiers wounded in insider attack at Afghan base: official Eugene Jun 2017 #4

All we're doing over there is making more Terrorist madokie Jun 2017 #5

and its radicalizing US soldiers elmac Jun 2017 #7

REPUBLICANS' PRESIDENT MAKE AMERICA HATE Sunlei Jun 2017 #10

will trump make an announcement on live TV? maybe the soldiers weren't republicans nt msongs Jun 2017 #6

7 wounded.There is so much friction between USA troops and Afghan trainees. Not safe boots on ground Sunlei Jun 2017 #9

TEB

(12,842 posts)

1. Prayers

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Jun 17, 2017, 10:52 AM

Jun 2017

Skittles

(153,160 posts)

8. If prayer worked

Reply to TEB (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 17, 2017, 02:43 PM

Jun 2017

Oh never mind

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)

2. US is denying that account from Afghan army's 209th Corps,

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Jun 17, 2017, 10:57 AM

Jun 2017

At least one Afghan soldier was killed and several American soldiers were wounded in an incident at a base in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, a U.S. military official said.

A spokesman for the U.S. military command in Kabul denied earlier comments by an Afghan official that Americans had been killed, but confirmed that an unspecified number of soldiers had been wounded at Camp Shaheen, the headquarters of the Afghan army's 209th Corps in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

At least one Afghan soldier was killed and another wounded, the U.S. official said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack-idUSKBN1980HJ

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riversedge

(70,220 posts)

3. good news. Hope it is true

Reply to Historic NY (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 17, 2017, 11:27 AM

Jun 2017

Eugene

(61,899 posts)

4. Reuters: Seven U.S. soldiers wounded in insider attack at Afghan base: official

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Jun 17, 2017, 12:09 PM

Jun 2017

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Sat Jun 17, 2017 | 12:00pm EDT

Seven U.S. soldiers wounded in insider attack at Afghan base: official

By Abdul Matin | MAZAR-I-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN

At least one Afghan was killed and seven American soldiers were wounded in an "insider attack" at a base in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, a U.S. military official said.

A spokesman for the U.S. military command in Kabul said earlier comments by an Afghan official that Americans had been killed were incorrect.

But he confirmed that seven soldiers had been evacuated after being wounded in the incident at Camp Shaheen, the headquarters of the Afghan army's 209th Corps in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

At least one Afghan soldier was killed and another wounded, the U.S. official said. He could not immediately say if the suspected shooter was among the dead or wounded.

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madokie

(51,076 posts)

5. All we're doing over there is making more Terrorist

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Jun 17, 2017, 12:20 PM

Jun 2017

why can't the PTB not see that.

Oh thats right they do but want to be that way as it allows them to continue on their nefarious ways

elmac

(4,642 posts)

7. and its radicalizing US soldiers

Reply to madokie (Reply #5)

Sat Jun 17, 2017, 02:20 PM

Jun 2017

my nephew, who used to be quite progressive, served several tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, is now an anti Muslim right winger. Another casualty of the military industrial complex.