Afghan policeman kills nine fellow officers at village post

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Source: AP

An Afghan policeman shot dead nine of his fellow officers as they slept in a village in aTaliban stronghold on Friday, police said.

The gunman opened fire with his assault rifle after waking up at 3am apparently to take over guard duty at a small command post in Paktika province, killing everyone inside, including the commander. He then took their weapons, piled them in a pickup truck and sped away.

The incident is latest among a number of attacks by Afghan security forces against their own people or against international troops in Afghanistan in recent years, some the result of arguments and others by infiltrators.

Provincial police chief Dawlat Khan Zadran said the incident took place in Yayakhil town of Yayakhil district.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/30/afghan-taliban-police-attack

[awoke_in_2003]

1. This is Afghanistan...

it will never be a country with a centralized government. This is a country of chieftans who fight each other, then, when an outside entity comes in, they band together and fight them. We CANNOT change anything there. We shouldn't have gone in, and we need to get out.

[xtraxritical]

2. So true. Just ask the English or the Russians.

It was their foray in Afghanistan that bankrupted the Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) and it's doing the same to us. There never has been nor will be a centralized government in that country. All this was known before we "surged" them. We should get out of there immediately and not bother with billions in foreign aid either. If they did not want the Taliban they have plenty of arms to eliminate them themselves.