Afghan troops kill two more US soldiers in Kandahar
Two more US soldiers were shot to death in Afghanistan Thursday by Afghan soldiers and an Afghan civilian instructor, the third such incident in the past ten days, since the burning of Korans at the main US airbase at Bagram touched off a wave of rebellion throughout the country. - While there were conflicting reports about the exact circumstances, press accounts agree that an Afghan soldier and a civilian Afghan literacy teacher opened fire on US soldiers, killing two and wounding four. Both Afghan men fled but were hunted down by attack helicopters and subsequently killed. Altogether, Afghan troops killed 70 American soldiers in 46 incidents since 2007, half of them since Obama first ordered the escalation of the US war effort in Afghanistan in the spring of 2009. According to US military investigations, the majority of these attacks were by individual soldiers enraged by the conduct of the Americans, not Taliban infiltrators.