Wednesday 4 July 2012

Shooter wearing Afghan uniform wounds 5 U.S. troops

 
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A man in an Afghan army uniform opened flames outside a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan, wounding 5 US soldiers, an Afghan police official supposed Wednesday.

The number of insider attacks against strange forces in Afghanistan has increased this year, undermining the trust among allies and efforts to prepare Afghan troops to take over their own security as international battle troops prepare to withdraw.

The US-led coalition established in a statement that a number of its service members were shot and wounded by a man in an Afghan military uniform Tuesday in Wardak province's Sayed Abad district. It supposed Wednesday that the service members were being treat at a medical facility but did not offer details.

The coalition maintains a large bottom there, but NATO did not say where in the district the harass took place or what happened to the assailant. NATO did say that an examination into the incident was under way.

Wardak provincial police leader Abdul Qayum Bakizoi said the wounded were five US soldiers.
A witness supposed Afghan civilians were talking to the soldiers outside their base when a man in an Afghan military uniform opened fire on them with a machine gun.

The Americans were standing on the other side of us while we were rank with a translator. Suddenly the Afghan soldier meant his machine gun on them and started shooting, supposed Eman, who gave only one name.

He additional that the wounded soldiers were evacuate by helicopter while the others took us sideways in fear of a possible gun battle. Eman thought the Afghan who opened fire escaped toward some trees and into a nearby rural community.

Wardak, near Kabul, is measured a Taliban hotbed and has been the scene of heavy combating during the past year.

On last year's anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001, radical attacks, a truck bomb outside the same coalition base wounded 77 American soldiers and killed 5 Afghan civilians.

Tuesday's shooting was the latest likely container of what are being called green-on-blue attacks -- in which Afghan soldiers or insurgents masquerading in their uniforms turn their weapons on coalition troops.

So far this year, 26 alliance troops have been killed in 18 such attacks. That compare with 11 fatal attacks and 20 deaths the earlier year.

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