{"id":1502,"date":"2011-04-28T10:41:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T10:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2011-04-28T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T10:41:44","slug":"foreign-troops-killed-in-afghan-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/04\/28\/1502\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign troops killed in Afghan shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"kabul_airport\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/kabul_airport.jpg\" height=\"193\" width=\"228\" \/>Eight foreign soldiers and a contractor have been killed in Afghanistan after an Afghan army officer opened fire at the air force headquarters at Kabul airport.<br \/>The Pentagon later confirmed that all those killed in Wednesday&#8217;s incident were Americans.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Afghan defence ministry said violence broke out between an Afghan air force pilot and US troops following an argument inside a facility used by the Afghan air force.<br \/>General Mohammad Zahir Azimi, a ministry spokesman, said the assailant was killed in the shooting.<br \/>&#8220;For the past 20 years, he has been a military pilot. An argument happened between him and the foreigners and we have to investigate that,&#8221; he said.<br \/>A statement from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said eight of its troops had been killed, but did not immediately disclose the nationalities of the victims.<br \/>&#8221; A quick reaction force responded to the incident&#8221;, the statement said.<br \/>The Taliban claimed responsibility for the killings but authorities could not confirm the group&#8217;s involvement.<br \/>A spokesman for the group told Al Jazeera that one of its members had been serving in the army for a long time with the aim of killing foreign forces and finally got the chance.<br \/>NATO efforts to train and equip local forces into taking over responsibility for security across Afghanistan by 2014 have been hit by a string of attacks carried out by men who have apparently infiltrated the armed forces or who committed attacks wearing unauthorised uniforms.<br \/>The defence ministry in Kabul was targeted last week by a gunman in army uniform wearing a suicide vest, in an attack that left three people dead.<br \/>Earlier this month, an attack at a military base in the east killed nine including five foreign troops and four Afghan soldiers, while the police chief of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan was also assassinated.<br \/>There are about 130,000 international troops serving in Afghanistan although Afghan forces are in control of<br \/>security in Kabul.<br \/>Limited foreign troop withdrawals are due to begin in July ahead of a complete pull-out of international combat troops in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight foreign soldiers and a contractor have been killed in Afghanistan after an Afghan army officer opened fire at the air force headquarters at Kabul airport.The Pentagon later confirmed that all those killed in Wednesday&#8217;s incident were Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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