Afghan soldier shoots 3 US troops in insider jihad attack

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Our troops are being sacrificed to the politically correct refusal to state the truth about Islam.
Another senseless shooting because the Obama administration refuses to acknowledge the motive and ideology of jihadic doctrine. How are our soldiers supposed to distinguish the jihadists from people on our side?
Worse still, the Department of Defense lies about these murders in order to prop up their failed policy.
Our boys and girls in Afghanistan are sitting ducks.

“Afghan soldier shoots, wounds 3 US troops in insider attack,” by Lynne O’Donnell and Rahim Faiez, Associated Press, April 8, 2015:
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan soldier opened fire on U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday, wounding three before he was shot dead by American troops, an official and an eyewitness said.
The incident happened after a meeting between Afghan provincial leaders and a U.S. Embassy official in the compound of the provincial governor in the city of Jalalabad, according to Gen. Fazel Ahmad Sherzad.
U.S. officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
It is the second insider attack this year. An Afghan soldier killed three American contractors on January 29. The shooter was also killed in that incident.
Sherzad, who is police chief for eastern Nangarhar province, said the incident happened immediately after the meeting and the embassy official has left.
“Right after the U.S. official had left, suddenly an Afghan army soldier opened fire on the U.S. soldiers who were present in the compound,” Sherzad told The Associated Press.
The American troops returned fire, killing the Afghan soldier, whom Sherzad identified as Abdul Azim, from Laghman province.
The motive for his attack was not immediately known.
Information was sketchy and an eyewitness told the AP that four U.S. troops had been wounded in the attack — not three as Sherzad said — and were being treated at a clinic on the American base in Jalalabad.
The witness, an Afghan interpreter working with the U.S. troops, said that no U.S. soldiers had died in the incident.
“Only the ANA (Afghan National Army) soldier died, we killed him straight away,” said the witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to media.
Earlier, an Afghan official said two people were killed and three wounded in an ambush late Tuesday aimed at police in eastern Kunar province, where the Taliban have a strong presence.
Farid Dhekhan, the spokesman for the provincial police chief, said the attack, which occurred in Narang district, targeted a police vehicle, which escaped unharmed. The dead were a man and woman from the same family, Dhekhan said, speaking on Wednesday….

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