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Afghan inside attack kills 2 Americans, 2 Afghans, marking 2,000 US troop deaths
fox news ^ | 9/30/2012 | ap

Posted on 09/30/2012 5:48:54 AM PDT by tobyhill

An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American troops at a checkpoint in the country's east, killing two Americans and at least two fellow members of Afghanistan's army in a shooting that marked both the continuance of a disturbing trend of insider attacks and the 2,000th U.S. troop death in the long-running war, officials said Sunday.

The string of insider attacks is one of the greatest threats to NATO's mission in the country, endangering a partnership key to training up Afghan security forces and withdrawing international troops.

Saturday's shooting took place at an Afghan army checkpoint just outside a joint U.S.-Afghan base in Wardak province, said Shahidullah Shahid, a provincial government spokesman.

"Initial reports indicate that a misunderstanding happened between Afghan army soldiers and American soldiers," Shahid said. He said investigators had been sent to the site to try to figure out what happened.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012electionbias; afghanistan; codepinkmia; deathlist; doublestandard; obamaswar; thegoodwar
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To: tobyhill

And Obama yawned and said, “Where’s my campaign donation?”


21 posted on 09/30/2012 7:15:46 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: DuncanWaring
And, if I recall correctly, roughly three-quarters of the 2000 have died since January 2009.

Of all the Obama f ups the media has buried this is by far the most disgusting and one they can never be forgiven for.

22 posted on 09/30/2012 7:16:24 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: tobyhill

Fight to win, or be defeated and be prepared to suffer the consequences of being conquered.


23 posted on 09/30/2012 7:17:36 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: tobyhill
Get our folks the hell outta that stinking rat hole excuse for a civilization.
24 posted on 09/30/2012 7:26:41 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Obama for president -- of KENYA!)
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To: tobyhill

Obama’s “Good War”. What’s the mission now that OBL is gone?


25 posted on 09/30/2012 8:41:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: tobyhill

Organize a withdrawal NOW. No good is being accomplished that is apparent. I know the troops are doing all they can but what they are allowed to do is not enough for whatever it is they are trying to do.

Eliminate the Taliban? Not done yet and not going to be done with the current ROE. Is it? The Russians had no ROE did they? Incredible isn’t it? An organization of cells with ideals and principles at the head. No real head to decapitate the organization though we have tried and it continues.

If we don’t have the purpose or will to win we don’t have the need to stay.


26 posted on 09/30/2012 9:09:16 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: MestaMachine

The same action drove Johnson from the white hut. What went on in Vietnam was on the television every night and and drove LBJ from office. Now we see NOTHING. The propaganda machine has decided this is not something they will whip the sheeple into a frenzy about.

We are letting a group of people who we would not have given the time of day when we were younger control our world. The power brokers empower them. The power brokers are the ones who own the media. I would say to boycott them and drive them out of business but I think that is impossible. I think they don’t need to make a profit. I think they would operate at a loss because controlling the media is controlling the people. The monied power brokers don’t need more money they need MORE POWER.


27 posted on 09/30/2012 9:15:56 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Sequoyah101

Can you say opium? I knew you could.


28 posted on 09/30/2012 9:20:53 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and bo stinks)
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To: MestaMachine

There needs to be a new poem along the lines of “In Flander’s Fields” but a shameful satire on this mess.


29 posted on 09/30/2012 9:55:25 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: tobyhill
Ironic that the 2000th fatality was at the hands of a so-called "ally." Time to consult Kipling, who got it:

"If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white, remember it's ruin to run from a fight: So take open order, lie down, and sit tight, and wait for support like a soldier, Wait, wait, wait like a soldier..."

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, an' go to your Gawd like a soldier."

There has to be a version in Russian as well but it sadly is not available. The American version is yet to be written.

30 posted on 09/30/2012 1:02:04 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: angcat

EXACT LEEEE
9/12 SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE DAY THAT WAS REMEMBERED AS THE DAY WE NUKED IRAN AND SYRIA, AND THE DAY HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH WERE SLAUGHTERED.....but instead we were told to go shopping, spend more money and to remember that islum was a religion of peace.


31 posted on 09/30/2012 10:55:01 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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