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malaise

(269,200 posts)
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 08:53 AM Aug 2014

Breaking - 12 American Military shot in Afghanistan

Three dead at British training camp - Afghan soldier opened fire.

Get the hell of out Afghanistan.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/western-troops-shot-dead-afghanistans-camp-qargha-isaf-says-n172736
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Western Troops Shot Dead at Afghanistan's Camp Qargha, ISAF Says

KABUL, Afghanistan - Multiple Western soldiers were killed Tuesday after a man wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire at a military academy near Afghanistan's capital, officials said.

U.S. officials told NBC News that as many as 12 soldiers - most, if not all, American - were shot in the attack. A spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force confirmed "fatalities' after "a shooting incident involving ISAF and Afghan troops," but could not confirm the number of victims or their nationalities.

Gen. Mohammmad Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for Afghanistan's Defense Ministry, tweeted in Dari that the gunman was wearing Afghan military uniform and opened fire on Afghan and international colleagues before being shot dead.

The shooting happened at Camp Qargha, which is located west of Kabul, the ISAF spokesman said. The camp includes the National Military Academy of Afghanistan, which was reconstructed after the 2001 invasion. It is based on the design of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Qargha, which is overseen by the British military, is sometimes called "Sandhurst in the sand" in a reference to the British military's own officers' training school.


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Breaking - 12 American Military shot in Afghanistan (Original Post) malaise Aug 2014 OP
The US should get out of everywhere. Paper Roses Aug 2014 #1
Expect the death toll to rise malaise Aug 2014 #3
NATO brass--at least three dead. A German Brig Gen...can't confirm if dead or wounded. nt msanthrope Aug 2014 #7
Get. The. Fuck. Out. MindPilot Aug 2014 #2
We need to get out of the Middle East Marrah_G Aug 2014 #4
Bring our kids home madokie Aug 2014 #5
Gonna be some high-ranking people--this was a planned NATO-Afghan meetting of the brass. nt msanthrope Aug 2014 #6

madokie

(51,076 posts)
5. Bring our kids home
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 09:20 AM
Aug 2014

Mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers. Bring all them home. Killing solves only one thing and that is stopping a heart from beating, as if that needed solved.

The people of Afghanistan did not attack us on 911. They say some cave dwellers who were residing there did, I have my doubts about the official explanation, but that is for another reply at another time. Today I just want to see the killing stopped, on our side as well as theirs.

Might does not prove right no matter how mighty one is.
Look at the I/P slaughter for conformation of that

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