{"id":32648,"date":"2012-10-31T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T11:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32648"},"modified":"2012-10-31T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T12:10:13","slug":"green-on-blue-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32648","title":{"rendered":"Green-on-blue again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Gurkha soldiers were killed in Helmand Province the other day by an Afghan wearing a police uniform while the Gurkas were manning a checkpoint, according to Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

A statement from the NATO military coalition said only that the assailant was wearing a police uniform, leaving open the possibility that the attacker was a militant posing as a policeman. The statement did not provide details on the shooting, saying it was being investigated.<\/p>\n

The British Ministry of Defense said the attack happened at a checkpoint in Helmand Province’s Nahri Sarraj district.<\/p>\n

“The loss of these soldiers is a huge blow,” Maj. Laurence Roche, a spokesman for British troops in Helmand, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The two killed soldiers were with the 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buried at the end of an article from Adnkronos International<\/a> about an ambush on some Italian troops is the news that two Americans were also killed in a green-on-blue attack;<\/p>\n

Two American troops were killed in southern Uruzgan province by a man wearing a police uniform, a spokesman for the Nato-led ISAF force said, the latest of 53 coalition soldiers be killed i[n] so-called \u201cgreen on blue\u201d attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Folks who know stuff are telling me that these reports are only the tip of the iceberg of “insider” attacks. Many more are happening but either being classified as another type of death, or don’t result in deaths, so they don’t make the news. The media, during the Bush Administration were upset about battle casualties, but now, during an election year don’t seem quite so concerned, probably because it’s the result of a failure of the overall strategy. The strategy formed in the infertile mind of Joe Bite-Me – the man who has been consistently wrong on every foreign policy issue and every national security issue since he began his political career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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