{"id":31441,"date":"2012-08-10T07:15:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31441"},"modified":"2012-08-10T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T11:15:10","slug":"two-more-green-on-blue-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31441","title":{"rendered":"Two more green-on-blue attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like there were two attacks in addition to the ones we reported earlier this week. This may be the one that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31435\">Hondo reported<\/a> on earlier.<a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/08\/10\/13212597-three-us-special-forces-troops-killed-afghan-officials-say?lite\">The murder was committed  by a shooter<\/a>, apparently a local police commander who fled the scene;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Citing Afghan officials, Reuters said the American special forces members were killed late Thursday while attending a meeting in the Sarwan Qala area, in what appeared to be a planned attack by rogue Afghan forces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During dinner, the police commander and his colleagues shot them and then fled. The commander was Afghan National Police in charge of local police in Sangin,&#8221; a senior Afghan official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Sangin is a district.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The other, <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/08\/09\/13204924-afghan-suicide-bomber-kills-senior-army-leader-2-majors?lite\">a suicide bomber<\/a> took out the leadership of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The victims included Command Sgt. Maj. Kevin J. Griffin, the most senior enlisted soldier for the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. Griffin, 45, of Riverton, Wyo., was a Bronze Star recipient who first enlisted in the Army in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. Thomas E. Kennedy, 35, of West Point, N.Y., and Air Force Maj. Walter D. Gray, 38, of Conyers, Ga., were also killed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s four attempts this week, but, there&#8217;s no conspiracy, says the Karzai government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like there were two attacks in addition to the ones we reported earlier this &hellip; <a title=\"Two more green-on-blue attacks\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31441\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two more green-on-blue attacks<\/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-31441","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\/31441","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=31441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}