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Rogue Afghan Cop Kills 5 Brit Soldiers

Culprit escapes after turning weapon on training team

By Jane Yager,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 4, 2009 6:17 AM CST
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(Newser) – Five British soldiers died in Helmand province yesterday after a rogue Afghan cop opened fire on a group of Afghan policemen and their British mentors drinking tea together. The mentors had been training the Afghans for two weeks when one of the trainees turned his weapon on them without warning. The gunman then fled the scene on a motorbike.

The culprit, who may have had Taliban ties, also wounded six British soldiers and two Afghan policemen. Coming a month after an Afghan policeman killed two Americans, the incident raises questions about Western training of Afghan police vulnerable to Taliban recruitment. A British military official called the incident a "bolt from the blue" and vowed that "no stone will be left unturned" in catching the killer, the Times of London reports.


A casualty is loaded into an ambulance before being taken to a base hospital in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, after five British soldiers were shot dead in an attack.
A casualty is loaded into an ambulance before being taken to a base hospital in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, after five British soldiers were shot dead in an attack.   (AP Photo/APTN)
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, a casualty is unloaded into an ambulance before being taken to a base hospital in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, after five British soldiers were shot dead in an attack.
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, a casualty is unloaded into an ambulance before being taken to a base hospital in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, after five British soldiers were shot dead in an attack.   (AP Photo/APTN)
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses UK troops at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008.
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses UK troops at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008.   (AP Photo / Lewis Whyld)
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bewilderbeast
Nov 9, 2009 10:58 AM CST
Nope. And as long as their are foreign, strange-looking, funny-talking people in a country there will be "patriots" in that country willing to blow their invader brains out. NO-ONE can EVER like someone else lording it over them in their own land. GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN, America. Just GO HOME.
Middleman
Nov 5, 2009 6:06 AM CST
Actually we tried that. They refused, we invaded...
NxBigmouthery
Nov 4, 2009 9:56 AM CST
As good as it would be to see that country's shackles broken, sometimes I can't help but sit here and go 'fuck 'em'. And how did that guy get away scot-free?

 
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