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US contractors 'killed in insider attack' in Kabul
Al Jezeera ^ | 1-29-2015 | Al Jezeera

Posted on 01/29/2015 12:07:07 PM PST by tcrlaf

Three American contractors were killed in an apparent insider attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, an Afghan air force official told Reuters news agency.

"It is unclear yet why he shot these advisers and no one else was there to tell us the reason," the official said, asking not to be named because he was not authorised to give statements to the media.

"An investigation has been opened."

The international force in Afghanistan also confirmed the shooting took place on Thursday evening.

A rise in so-called "insider attacks" in Afghanistan has eroded trust between Afghan and international troops in the final years of the combat mission that ended in 2014, prompting foreign forces to scale back interaction with their allies.

(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; airport; contractor; insiderattack; kabul
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To: tcrlaf

thought the war was over now because bozo the clown said so and that is why we now talk to terrorists and give them their terrorists back so we can get a deserter


21 posted on 01/29/2015 2:11:34 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Kackikat

Notice how the white house press have asked this question about terrorism and yet on their nightly news there is nothing about it?


22 posted on 01/29/2015 2:15:32 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: tcrlaf

“It is unclear yet why he shot these advisers and no one else was there to tell us the reason”

Damn, that’s a real brain teaser. Hope somebody has an idea why someday./


23 posted on 01/29/2015 2:22:01 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I’m really starting to despise him..


24 posted on 01/29/2015 3:00:25 PM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: manc

True.


25 posted on 01/29/2015 3:06:33 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: 2harddrive

I agree.


26 posted on 01/29/2015 3:07:18 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: cardinal4

having found him despicable for some time...has inspired my rather under handed visual tributes to the leading example of Human Debris in our time...

to call obie scum would be an insult to scum.


27 posted on 01/29/2015 3:40:43 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: tcrlaf

Having worked in Iraq and Afghanistan, for 40 months total; unarmed per company policy- I constantly asked the questions... who can/will hurt me, and what will I do about it should the shtf? More times than not I had few concrete answers. The best I could do was buy the biggest knife available at the PX, and alter my habits as best I could. I stayed on base- no choice. I had a unique job outside the US wire, yet inside the Afghan wire. I often contemplated riding the bus transporting Afghan and Pakistan workers back to Kandahar, about 10 klicks away... for the dare, but the gnawing fact that I would be a target/dead man walking, gave me pause to reconsider, even though the bragging rights would be fairly high. It’s ‘Injun’ country first and foremost. Being armed and vigilant, might have lured me out into the countryside. Kabul, 400 miles away, proved a conduit for beer and whiskey, which was verboten. That it was relatively cosmopolitan and tolerant, as Islam goes... was the trap. It’s likely attractive and vulnerable today, of Westerner’s dropping their guard. I was their 10 years ago...


28 posted on 01/29/2015 4:05:50 PM PST by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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