Jihad Attacks on American Soldiers By Our Afghan "Allies"

This shouldn't come as a surprise if our government officials were not so
willfully blind. What does it take to convince them that muslims will never have
friendships or permanent alliances with infidels? No amount of nation building
or any other good will gestures will make them like us. This persistent failure
on the part of our government to understand islam is killing our soldiers.

US officials detail Afghan army attacks on coalition

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. defense officials are to tell Congress Wednesday that supposedly friendly Afghanistan security forces have attacked U.S. and coalition troops 45 times since May 2007, for the first time laying out details of attacks that have killed 70 and wounded 110.

Defense officials say that in most cases the Afghans acted out of personal motivation and were not controlled by insurgent groups.

The second most common circumstances involve insurgents impersonating Afghan security forces.

The revelations were made in testimony prepared for delivery Wednesday to the House Armed Services Committee. It was obtained by The Associated Press.

..The latest such killing happened Wednesday when an Afghan soldier shot and killed a NATO service member in southern Afghanistan, officials said.

The news came as The Times newspaper, which operates behind a paywall, reported Wednesday that a secret U.S. military report said the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control over Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw from the country.

Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), confirmed the document's existence but said it was not a strategic study of operations.

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