"Amanullah worked as a bodyguard for the second-ranking official in Afghanistan's intelligence service—Gen. Assam Din Assam, the deputy director for National Directorate for Security, the police chief said."
I have said many times in the context of many similar incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is no reliable way to distinguish a peaceful Muslim from a jihadist. This is yet more fruit of the unwillingness to make even a cursory attempt to take that fact into account.
"Afghan guard shoots dead NATO soldier, civilian," by Solomon Moore and Heidi Vogt for the Associated Press, July 9 (thanks to Bill):
KABUL, Afghanistan—An Afghan guard opened fire at a NATO-escorted reconstruction convoy after an argument Saturday, killing a service member and a civilian working for the coalition before being killed by return fire, a provincial police chief said.The convoy was traveling in the northern Panjshir province, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of the capital, Kabul, when it came under attack, according to provincial police chief Gen. Mohammad Qasim Jangalbagh.
The Afghan guard, who goes by the name Amanullah, was standing outside his home when the convoy passed by, the police chief said.
The guard stopped the convoy, started arguing with the NATO troops and then opened fire, killing the service member and the civilian, Jangalbagh said. A third coalition service member was wounded in the shooting, the police chief added, and another NATO service member fired back, killing Amanullah.
Amanullah worked as a bodyguard for the second-ranking official in Afghanistan's intelligence service—Gen. Assam Din Assam, the deputy director for National Directorate for Security, the police chief said.
Assam was not at the scene of the shooting in Panjshir. No one at the intelligence agency could be reached for comment. [...]
Since September 2007, more than 70 people have been killed in incidents involving Afghan security forces, or attackers disguised as security personnel, who have turned their weapons against Afghan or NATO troops.
Such incidents have become more common over time. Out of about 25 attacks, nearly half took place in 2011. NATO officials have said that the incidents have taken a toll on the morale among coalition forces and recently have implemented additional training and screening techniques to identify problems among Afghan recruits....
And those training and screening techniques will never work as long as no one in command is willing to face the reality of the jihad doctrine.
It seems to be the new Muslim tactic for attacking...start an argument before shooting...it has happened at remote checkpoints, remote military bases, at airports, at office complexes, on the job, and now as a convoy passes by...
Just something to think about the next time your local Muslim cabbie starts to become argumentative..
Bodyguard for second-ranking official in Afghanistan intel service murders NATO soldier, civilian working for coalition
"Amanullah worked as a bodyguard for the second-ranking official in Afghanistan's intelligence service—Gen. Assam Din Assam, the deputy director for National Directorate for Security, the police chief said."
I have said many times in the context of many similar incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is no reliable way to distinguish a peaceful Muslim from a jihadist. This is yet more fruit of the unwillingness to make even a cursory attempt to take that fact into account.
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Yes—and we haven't even tried, either here at home in the West or in Afghanistan or Iraq. To do so would be "Islamophobic"—even if they could figure out what questions to ask.
More:
Amanullah worked as a bodyguard for the second-ranking official in Afghanistan's intelligence service—Gen. Assam Din Assam, the deputy director for National Directorate for Security, the police chief said.
Assam was not at the scene of the shooting in Panjshir. No one at the intelligence agency could be reached for comment.
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I'll bet. What will General Assam's reaction to this be? Will he be dismayed, frightened that he himself might have been a target, or will he be sympathetic to his bodyguard's Jihad attack on the Infidel?
That we have no way of knowing—and that all of these reactions seem plausible—is another part of the problem.
the coalition is traning an Army of 300,000 afghan's. If just 5% are jihadist.s then the country will be back in the hands of the Taliban 10 minuites after the last of the coalition forces leave. Lets face it, after ten years billions of dollors and the loss of so many of our good men, we are no more secure than we were. The only thing is now they have a better trained army.
The population is growing at an alarming rate, and its two best exports are heroin, and terrorist's. Should have sent them to the stone age when we had the chance.
I want to know from which country the NATO member and civilian member were that died, and also the NATO member.
Face it! To them it is a religious war. And we think we can win them over with our money and blood? Time to leave that horrible land and take care of our own borders against unwanted intruders.
Get out of Afghanistan where the local population hate us and give aid to South Sudan where our help is needed and would be genuinely welcomed.
Today's Lesson
How can you tell a jihadist from a peaceful mooselip?
The only difference, the jihadist will shoot you!
Hear, hear!
Seconded.
I would much, much rather that my brave Australian fellow citizens who serve in our Defence Forces were in South Sudan (as they are in East Timor) helping a newly-liberated non-Muslim country, that has been ravaged by Jihad, to build up its infrastructure (physical and social) and strengthen its defences to resist the Jihad that will most certainly be waged against it (and is, indeed, right on the borders already). I'd much rather our soldiers were training and equipping South Sudanese Christian soldiers and policemen, than training murderous Mohammedan jihad assassins who will turn on them and kill them the moment they turn their backs.
In South Sudan Aussie and American and British soldiers, on their days off, could drink beer and dance and sing with the locals and flirt with the girls and play footie or cricket with the guys - and, for that matter, if so inclined, they could **go to church**, Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, Church of Christ, you-name-the-flavour, with the locals on Sundays. The nice fat motherly ladies from the Sudan branch of the Mothers Union - who have witnessed and endured more hell than any woman should ever be asked to suffer - would cluck and fuss over them and feed them home cooking and ask about their wives and girlfriends and kids back home...
And bridges and roads and schools and clinics, once built, would not be blown up by the locals, but would be gratefully made use of. Though, like in Israel, I'd advise the building of substantial bomb shelters within a short sprint of every visible public building - because North Sudan will be attacking.
There would be a lot fewer psychological problems and suicides among our troops if they were posted not in Afghanistan but in South Sudan, because in South Sudan they'd KNOW they were doing something worthwhile - helping traumatised non-Muslim people emerge from slavery into freedom and rebuild from scratch.