When statists turn on each other: Gunfight Whacks 2 Yanks Who Trained Afghan Army - Poetic Justice At Its Finest

KABUL, Afghanistan — A seemingly routine training practice in marksmanship went fatally wrong on Tuesday when an Afghan Army sergeant turned his weapon on an American trainer and a gunfight began. When it was over, the sergeant, two American trainers and an Afghan soldier who had been standing nearby lay dead.

The fight, which also wounded a NATO soldier, occurred near the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif at a training center for Afghan soldiers named Camp Shaheen, according to a statement from the NATO command and an Afghan defense official.

The camp is used to instruct Afghan recruits in weapons use and other basic military skills, said Brig. Gen. Gary S. Patton, the deputy commander for the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan. He said the gunfight was under investigation by a joint American-Afghan team.

General Patton said that he was uncertain about the motives of the Afghan sergeant, but that the military considered it “an isolated incident.”

If the sergeant’s actions proved to be deliberate, however, it would be the second time this month that an Afghan soldier purposefully killed members of the foreign forces here in the nearly nine-year-old war.

An Afghan Ministry of Defense official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the news media, said that the fight began with an argument between an Afghan sergeant and trainer named Jaffar and one of the American trainers. According to the defense official, the Afghan sergeant shot two American trainers; then a third American trainer shot and killed the Afghan sergeant as well as another Afghan soldier, who was an innocent bystander. The NATO soldier was wounded in the cross-fire.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/world/asia/21rogue.html

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When statists turn on each other: Gunfight Whacks 2 Yanks Who Trained Afghan Army - Poetic Justice At Its Finest

When statists turn on each other: Gunfight Whacks 2 Yanks Who Trained Afghan Army - Poetic Justice At Its Finest

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