Three British soldiers were killed by an Afghan Police Officer when he fired an RPG into a room that they were using as a command center in Afghanistan. The defection of Afghan policemen and was once a major but some positive action by NATO and the US seemed to get it under control. Still at one defector managed to slip through the cracks and cause the deaths.
Our military ring customers who go on combat operations have to worry about the enemy on both sides of the trenches. Many casualties have been caused by these defectors and there is no way to know 100% that the people that you are dealing with are not defectors. How do you watch your back and front at the same time?
A positive thing is that I have not heard any news of such an incident happening in quite a long time so we must have done something right in screening our Afghan allies more carefully. This operation had to be carefully planned by the policeman who pulled it off. President Karzai has apologized to the Brits and efforts are underway to find the soldier responsible. This incident is tragic but let me remind you once again that this is the first time in quite a while that this type incident has occurred.
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