From Fox News:
A man in an Afghan police uniform shot and killed an international service member on Sunday, NATO said, raising the death toll to 10 in such attacks in the space of just two weeks.
The nationality of the ISAF soldier killed was not released.
Yeah, I’d guess the numerous repetitions we’ve seen of this kind of thing qualifies as a “pattern”. And when patterns appear repeatedly in the enemy’s operations, as I recall that’s generally called a “tactic”.
At least we finally seem to be treating this sort of thing as an enemy tactic vice an aberration. It’s about damn time.
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I’m saddened that it took this long for them to finally realize what many who have been over there knew all along. If they find something that works keep doing it.
While working with the Army building COPs in afghan last year we were closely embedded with the ANA/ABP. I never for a moment even came close to trusting or truning my back to those assholes. Outside of the jirga i had to attend over a well we were drilling, I refused to sit and eat with them. It is gut wrenching and heart breaking to read any green on blue attacks are still not being taken seriously.
Once is circumstance, twice is coincidental, three times is enemy action…advice given to me by a squad leader many years ago. How do you classify ten times in a space of two weeks (ignoring the dozens that preceded this in previous years)?
Jabatam: I believe it was 5 total incidents, with US/ISAF KIA counts of 3, 3, 2, 1, and 1. But I could be wrong.
In any case, your main point is correct. It’s a deliberate tactic, not an aberration or chance occurrence.
This is not “war,” this is murder plain and simple.
In regards to #2, this is what we are spending billions in tax payer dollars for, to have our troops looking over their backs at the same people they are training to fight the enemy?
We cannot leave that place soon enough.
Time to pop smoke …