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  • Afghan Officer Fires on NATO Troops, Kills 9

    04/27/2011 5:13:56 AM PDT · by Red in Blue PA · 55 replies
    KABUL, Afghanistan – Eight NATO service members and a contractor are dead after an Afghan military pilot opened fire on the foreign troops following a dispute at the airport in Kabul. Wednesday's shooting was the deadliest incident in which a member of the Afghan security forces turned against coalition forces.
  • Deadly attack on Americans was premeditated

    01/17/2012 5:33:58 PM PST · by ColdOne · 10 replies
    FoxNews ^ | 1/17/12 | AP
    WASHINGTON – U.S. military investigators found no conclusive evidence that an Afghan officer who killed eight U.S. airmen and one U.S. civilian during a meeting in Kabul in April had ties to the Taliban, according to a report released Tuesday. But the gunman, who shot each of the Americans multiple times after arriving for a routine meeting at an Afghan air force headquarters compound, previously had vowed to "kill Americans," the report said. The incident — among the deadliest of its kind during the 10-year-old war — showed the dangers faced not only by U.S. troops on Afghan battlefields but...