Earning support from the poor Shia majority, he turned his fire on coalition forces.
This year, 39 British soldiers have died, eight of them in so-called green-on-blue episodes involving Afghan soldiers or police officers opening fire on coalition forces.
NATO and Afghan officials confirmed that two Afghan policemen opened fire on coalition troops near the city of Kandahar, wounding two NATO soldiers.
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier opened fire on coalition forces in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing one soldier and wounding at least four others in the first so-called insider attack in more than a month, officials said.
In one, NATO and Afghan officials on Friday confirmed that two Afghan policemen opened fire on coalition troops in the Zhare district, near the city of Kandahar, wounding two NATO soldiers before they were themselves killed.
Meanwhile, nobody is doing the job of actual policing — rule of law, keeping the population safe from all comers (including friendly fire and coalition operations), providing justice and dispute resolution, and civil and criminal law enforcement.
After going to great lengths to occupy the oil fields before Saddam's forces could set them on fire, the coalition forces did nothing to keep the locals from stealing whatever they wanted.
On Saturday, an Afghan soldier — or possibly an insurgent wearing an Afghan Army uniform — opened fire on coalition forces in Farah Province in western Afghanistan, NATO and Afghan officials said Sunday.
The leafleting mission on Sunday, the fourth carried out in the last eight weeks, dropped fliers that said in Arabic, 'Do not track or fire on coalition aircraft,' and included a cartoon of a warplane striking a radar and missile site.
The attack took place a day after allied aircraft dropped 120,000 leaflets over the town of Ar Rumaytha, about 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, in a continuing psychological operation to urge Iraqi military personnel not to fire at coalition warplanes, the Central Command said.
