US-Backed Afghan Police Poison 17 Comrades
The perpetrators were reportedly Taliban infiltrators, retaliating for atrocities and crimes by Afghan police. - Several members of the Afghan Local Police, trained and armed by the United States, drugged 17 of their fellow police officers before executing all of them, according to Afghan officials. “The attackers poisoned the dinner food of the other officers, shot them at close range to ensure they were dead, stole their weapons and fled after setting a police vehicle on fire,” reports The New York Times.
New York Times: 20 Afghan Police Officers Killed in 2 Attacks, Including a Mass Poisoning