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March 12, 2013

U.S. Troops Face Deadliest Day This Year in Afghanistan 
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Monday marked the deadliest day for U.S. troops in Afghanistan this year
after seven soldiers perished in two separate incidents. Five U.S.
servicemembers were killed in a helicopter crash outside Kandahar city.
Hours earlier, two U.S. soldiers were shot dead in a so-called insider
attack at a special operations site in Wardak province when a person in
an Afghan military uniform turned his gun on U.S. and Afghan forces.
Three Afghan police officers and two army officers were also killed in
the attack, according to a senior police official. Brigadier General
Gunter Katz of the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF,
described the attack.

Gunter Katz: "What I can confirm is that today in Wardak, an Afghan
wearing the uniform of the Afghan national security forces shot ISAF and
ANSF soldiers, two of our ISAF soldiers were killed a couple others were
wounded and there are other causalities among the members of Afghan
security forces as well."

Monday's attack occurred in Wardak as a deadline expired for U.S.
special forces to leave the province. President Hamid Karzai had set the
deadline over allegations concerning the disappearances of nine
villagers.

 

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