Afghan 'insider attack' kills two US soldiers in Kandahar

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

24 minutes ago

Two US service members have been killed by an Afghan soldier in an apparent insider attack in Afghanistan, local police say.

The soldier opened fire on the Americans in Shawalikot district, Kandahar, the office of the province's police chief confirmed to the BBC.

US officials have only confirmed that two soldiers were killed on Monday.

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he would reduce the number of US troops in Afghanistan by 2020.

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[Kid Berwyn]

1. 18 years for what?

Taliban offered to turn over bin Laden to US in 2001.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5

[EX500rider]

2. Not to the US they didn't.

Afghanistan's deputy prime minister, Haji Abdul Kabir, told reporters that the Taliban would require evidence that Bin Laden was behind the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US.

"If the Taliban is given evidence that Osama bin Laden is involved" and the bombing campaign stopped, "we would be ready to hand him over to a third country", Mr Kabir added.

But it would have to be a state that would never "come under pressure from the United States", he said.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. So what?

He’d face justice. And we’d avoid a 20 year war.

[EX500rider]

4. If they sent him to a country that was unfriendly to the US he wouldn't, it was just a stall tactic.

And the Taliban still needed to go, they were giving Al Qaeda a safe base to plan more atrocities.