{"id":77138,"date":"2018-01-13T10:24:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T15:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77138"},"modified":"2018-01-13T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T15:24:29","slug":"us-retaliates-for-green-on-blue-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77138","title":{"rendered":"US retaliates for green-on-blue attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us-launches-airstrike-apparent-insider-attack-135712294.html\">AFP<\/a> reports that an Afghanistan militia group attacked a patrol of US soldiers near Achin in Nangarhar province. US air forces retaliated against the group;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Khan said at least 13 fighters were killed in the airstrike, though other sources gave conflicting figures. An AFP reporter saw at least eight militia fighters buried on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>NATO&#8217;s Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan confirmed there had been an airstrike, but said it had targeted insurgents after they opened fire on an Afghan militia leader, a US soldier and an interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>It said 10 insurgents were killed but denied reports from local sources saying that American soldiers were among the dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An insurgent affiliated group posing as local militia&#8230; baited a local Afghan militia leader and a US service member with an Afghan interpreter into a compound under the pretense of a security&#8230;meeting,&#8221; said spokesman Captain Tom Gresback.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the meeting &#8220;multiple members of the insurgent group&#8221; started shooting, killing the militia leader and wounding the US soldier and interpreter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In past years, the sergeant major of the Army would make a trip to Afghanistan and scold US soldiers for being culturally insensitive and causing the attacks. These airstrikes seem to be a better, more efficient way to express our anger towards cowards who commit sneak attacks on our troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP reports that an Afghanistan militia group attacked a patrol of US soldiers near Achin in &hellip; <a title=\"US retaliates for green-on-blue attack\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77138\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US retaliates for 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-77138","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\/77138","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=77138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}