{"id":31380,"date":"2012-08-07T15:29:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T19:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31380"},"modified":"2012-08-07T15:29:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T19:29:30","slug":"three-more-shot-in-green-on-blue-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31380","title":{"rendered":"Three more shot in green-on-blue attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/gunmen-in-afghan-uniform-kill-us-soldier-1.185071\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that there was another green-on-blue attack by two Afghans in the uniform of the ANA today; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two gunmen wearing Afghan National Army uniforms fired on NATO troops at a base in Paktia province of eastern Afghanistan, killing a soldier, according to the U.S.-led coalition and Afghan officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban claimed responsibility for the shooting, the latest in a rising number of so-called &#8220;green-on-blue&#8221; attacks in which Afghan security forces, or insurgents disguised in their uniforms, kill their U.S. or NATO partners.<\/p>\n<p>The international military coalition did not disclose the nationality of the service member killed, but a U.S. official said he was American.<\/p>\n<p>A second American official said two U.S. service members were wounded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The two &#8220;American officials&#8221; spoke on the condition of anonymity. The US says that the gunmen are custody. If those three soldiers had been armed, the two wouldn&#8217;t be in custody, they&#8217;d be in body bags.<\/p>\n<p>AP says that there have been 27 &#8220;coalition&#8221; troops killed in 20 instances so far this year &#8211; exactly 10% of the total casualties there this year. They further state that there were 4 incidents in 2007 &#038; 2008 combined. But there&#8217;s no conspiracy and it&#8217;s not part of a strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that there was another green-on-blue attack by two Afghans in the uniform &hellip; <a title=\"Three more shot in green-on-blue attack\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31380\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three more shot in green-on-blue attack<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}