Afghanistan: Taliban behind 25% of attacks against NATO

The Taliban are responsible for a quarter of Afghan soldiers attacks against members of NATO forces - a higher proportion than what was previously estimated, said Thursday the U.S. general commanding the forces NATO in Afghanistan. Approximately 25% of these " green-on-blue incidents ", which are members of the armed forces or the Afghan police kill members of NATO, are due to the infiltration of Taliban, said General John Allen, speaking by videoconference from Kabul.  There were 32 of these fratricidal attacks in 2012 that killed 40 coalition troops and wounded 69 is. In 2011, 16 similar attacks had killed 28 people and wounded 43, according to NATO. A previous evaluation of NATO estimated 10% the number of incidents resulting from the infiltration of Taliban. " We believe it is around 25% , "insisted General Allen. " This figure of 10% or 25% is a figure that we will continue to specify (...) so that we have a good idea of the importance of the enemy threat in the Afghan security forces , "he said.  According to General Allen, these attacks are due to several factors, including the infiltration of Taliban, but also "disagreements, animosity could grow between an attacker and forces in general or personal reasons . " In total, 10 soldiers have been killed in such attacks in the past two weeks. " The daily pressure that weighs on some of these soldiers (Afghan), the sacrifice is fasting (Ramadan, which just ended, ed), our operational tempo ... All these factors could be combined in recent weeks and explain "the multiplication of recent attacks, found General Allen. Afghanistan has for its part Wednesday accused its neighbors, especially for without naming Pakistan, have infiltrated his forces and be behind the wave of attacks. General Allen emphasized that the authorities in Kabul had not provided any information to NATO on information that allowed them to reach this conclusion.