KABUL—Two high-ranking U.S. military advisers were killed Saturday during a clash with an Afghan national at Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry headquarters, according to Afghan and Western officials.
An American colonel and major were both found shot in the head at the busy ministry compound that is the nerve center for the Afghan law enforcement, according to one Western official in Kabul.
Afghan and American officials shut down the compound as they launched an investigation into the killings in one of the most heavily guarded parts of the capital.
Top U.S. military officials said they were still trying to determine the identity of the attacker. But one Western official in Kabul said that the two Americans were shot by an Afghan policeman upset about the burning of Qurans earlier this week at a U.S. military base.
Afghan police guard the entrance to the Afghan Interior Ministry in Kabul on Saturday, where two U.S. officers were shot.
Hours after the shooting, the Taliban issued a statement claiming that the attacker was an insurgent infiltrator who killed the Americans in retaliation for the Quran burning. In the statement, the Taliban said the assailant called to inform the insurgent group that he had carried out the attack and escaped unharmed.
Here’s an idea…
“””””””””””””” OBAMA LIED — SOLDIERS DIE “”””””””””””””””
“”””””””””””””” OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NOW “””””””””””””””””
The time is now for Americans of all stripes to take to the streets.
Shut it down and move our guys and gals out of harms way! We can’t depend on our government to do the right thing anymore. Let’s get out and let them fight each other! AND no foreign aid to any country who condones killing our troops!
It is over, tell Obama to quit sending our money over to his friends and get our troops out of that cess pool. Tell these Liberal Warmongers to bring our troops home and quit squandering our money on enriching Karzai’s family.
Keyser Soze
those look like they could do a good job with the ows occupiers, and it would be a real cleaning mop
in AFGHANISTAN,CHECK THIS WITH THE GENERALS,
THANK YOU
BYE
Shot in the head ? Was the shot behind the ear or in the temporal region of the skull? Sounds more like an execution. Opie will play the race card and pull all troop out by the end of October-4-5 weeks before the election and blame it all on Bush. Smile America you are getting screwed and you will be screwed again in October. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. The wipe house, the congress and the supreme court are all naked. Tragic is not the word. world-wide humiliation is correct. Just think, This week opie is going to try to tie the hands of Israel. He will give the Iranians an open invitation to destroy Israel. Watch, the media will lie for ratings on this one. Only question is which media will be tagged the biggest liar?
mos 8541
yes so true and so tragic that the braves should pay with their life that RULE OF ENGAGEMENT HAS FAILED, AND SUCH FINE GUARDIANS ARE sacrifice for following this ROE,
DAM THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, HE HAS THE BLOOD OF MANY REAL BRAVEST AMERICANS ON HIS HANDS, he will have to be reckon with by the AMERICAN CITIZENS ,
THIS WON’ ‘T GO AWAY, IT WILL COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM, and the day is coming. no MEDIAS will succeed
to protect him, not one of them.
AFGHANISTAN has spoken, telling AMERICA they AFGHANS are not to be trusted,
nor their police , nor the afghan military which the AMERICANS TRAINED WITH THE HIGHEST EXPERTIZE,
AFGHANISTAN IS NOT WORTHY OF AMERICA HELPING THEM TO PROTECT THEMSELVES,
THEY HAVE shown it more than once, and it has cost lives of the finest which this NATION HAVE BREED,
no one can turn his back to such people, how can you be peaceful in a demonstration from a people who hate you enough to kill you or allow some of them to do it and destroy your belonging, the biggest danger in there is the one you never expected to be happening,
how not to apply the ROE according to the event don’t you know this is a war?
and those demonstrator don’t use their free speech because they are under a DEMOCRACY, hell no, they are obeying the orders of the enemies, they’r part of the war, don’t forget it
Like “Nam all over again. The big bang is going to be Africa. What will a, monolinguistic Army Ranger do when he meets his Chinese multilinguistic counterpart in the jungle? Let the party begin! opie will try to hog tie Israel next week..Watch… It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakable precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Smile America, screwed again.