Afghan Police Kill 10 of Themselves

[Popsiq]

A green on green attack, this time in the Afghan police. Afghans take casualties at a rate 5 times that of ISAF, so given recent stats, this gunner could have done worse.

KABUL: An Afghan police officer killed at least 10 of his fellow officers on Saturday, a day after six US service members were gunned down by their Afghan partners in summer violence that has both international and Afghan forces

Shakila Hakimi, a member of the Nimroz provincial council, said the policeman who opened fire on his colleagues at a checkpoint in Dilaram district is believed to have had ties to militants. He was killed in an ensuing gunbattle, she said in a telephone call from the provincial capital of Zaranj, along Afghanistan's western border with Iran.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/w...w/15452648.cms

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They should have burned the carcass as a warning to other infiltrators.

[Popsiq]

One of the dead turns out to be a provincial security honcho. The same man who recommended the shooter for a job with the police.

These wouldn't be the same police who 'graduated' a day or so back with pictures in the daily photos? Western Afghanistan.