{"id":15075,"date":"2012-10-25T16:52:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T20:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=15075"},"modified":"2012-10-25T16:52:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T20:52:22","slug":"afghan-policeman-kills-two-us-troops-in-insider-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/10\/afghan-policeman-kills-two-us-troops-in-insider-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Policeman Kills Two US Troops in Insider Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/afghan.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/afghan.gif?resize=329%2C352\" alt=\"\" title=\"afghan\" width=\"329\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15076\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>Officials Offer Few Details on Uruzgan Province Killings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A man in an Afghan police uniform attacked and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/2-us-troops-die-apparent-afghan-insider-attack-144432328.html\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">killed two US<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a>soldiers today in the Uruzgan Province in the latest\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/world\/article.aspx?id=809634\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">apparent<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u201cgreen-on-blue\u201d attack in Afghanistan. Officials have yet to confirm the attacker\u2019s identity, and don\u2019t know if he was an actual policeman or just someone who stole a uniform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The attacker approached the soldiers pre-dawn as they were returning from a patrol, then opened fire killing two before escaping into the countryside. There was no indication what caused the incident, as many such shootings have been retaliation for arguments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">If confirmed as an \u201cinsider\u201d attack this would be 55 NATO soldiers killed so far this year in such attacks, by far the most of any single year in the 11+ year occupation of Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Taliban officials have regularly claimed credit for such attacks, though how many they are actually responsible for is a matter of some dispute. Taliban leader Mullah Omar released a statement yesterday urging his fighters to infiltrate the Afghan security forces to launch more such attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/10\/25\/afghan-policeman-kills-two-us-troops-in-insider-attack\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials Offer Few Details on Uruzgan Province Killings A man in an Afghan police uniform attacked and\u00a0killed two US\u00a0soldiers today in the Uruzgan Province in..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,97,119],"tags":[295],"class_list":["post-15075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-us-news","category-war","tag-afghanistan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/afghan_15075_57bde.gif?fit=329%2C352&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}