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Police trainee kills six US troops in Afghanistan
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Police trainee kills six US troops in Afghanistan
ASADABAD, Afghanistan (AFP) - – Six American soldiers training Afghan police were shot dead by one of their students in the deadliest such incident in at least two years, officials said Tuesday.
The shooting, which follows a string of similar attacks on NATO troops, underscores the challenges faced by the US-led mission as it aims to build the national army and police to take responsibility for security by 2014.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the gunman, identified as a local resident who had been in training with Western troops for only a few days, was also killed, and an investigation was under way.
Wearing Afghan border police uniform, the man turned his weapon against ISAF troops during the training mission on Monday, killing the six soldiers in Taliban-infested eastern Afghanistan, NATO announced.
A US defence official identified the six troops as Americans but declined to give further details.
ISAF on Tuesday announced the death of another soldier in the restive east, saying he died in a firefight with insurgents but giving no further details.
Also in the east, a remotely-detonated bomb injured four people in Khost province, including a losing candidate in September's controversial parliamentary elections, local police commander Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai said.
The politician lost both arms and legs in the blast, which took place close to his home and appeared to target him, the police chief added.
A Taliban spokesman praised the trainee policeman's attack in comments emailed to media, but the militant group did not claim credit for the killings.
President Hamid Karzai ordered security chiefs to investigate the incident with NATO, and the interior ministry later announced their own probe.
"The president offers his sympathy to the family of the victims and NATO troops based in Afghanistan," a statement from Karzai's office said.
Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province where the incident took place, named the gunman as Azat Gul, a policeman being schooled at the training centre in the Pachir Agam area of Khogyani district.
"After a few days of training, yesterday he opened fire and killed six American soldiers," Abdulzai told AFP.
Americans make up most of the foreign troops based in eastern Afghanistan, one of the worst flashpoints in the nine-year Taliban insurgency that erupted after the 2001 US-led invasion brought down their regime.
The deaths bring the number of coalition troop fatalities this year to 669, according to the independent icasualties.org website.
It is the highest annual toll since the US-led invasion in late 2001. Last year 521 NATO soldiers died.
The United States is bankrolling a massive programme -- 9.2 billion dollars in fiscal 2010 -- to build Afghanistan's army and police so they can take over responsibility for security by 2014.
But the programme has been troubled by a series of shootings, either by insurgents dressed in Afghan security uniforms or by rogue officers.
An ISAF spokesman said Monday's incident was the deadliest of its type since their database was started more than two years ago.
This month NATO said it was investigating whether an Afghan soldier killed two coalition troops on a military base in the volatile town of Sangin in southern Helmand province.
In July, an Afghan soldier killed two American contractors inside a military base in north Afghanistan. A week later another Afghan soldier killed three British Gurkha soldiers.
In 2009, five British soldiers were killed by an Afghan policeman.
Leading think tank the International Crisis Group has issued a damning review of the war, saying Afghan security forces "have proven a poor match for the Taliban" and were "corrupt, brutal and predatory".
Afghanistan now has about 80,000 police officers, and US and NATO forces say they hope to increase this number to 134,000 by October 2011, at the same time as boosting the Afghan army to a 170,000-strong force.
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