Six U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan in 24 hours

Three U.S. soldiers were shot dead by an employee within the Afghan military base, bringing to six the number of U.S. soldiers killed in the space of 24 hours, on Saturday announced a carrier Word of NATO. The first attack occurred Friday morning when Afghan police killed three Special Forces soldiers they had invited to share a breakfast in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. The second, which killed three other soldiers, took place in the night from Friday to Saturday, in the Garmsir district, near the site of the previous attack. The shooter, who acted alone, was an employee of the base and was not wearing the uniform, military sources said. "These two incidents do not reflect the situation throughout Afghanistan," said Brigadier General Gunter Katz, chief spokesman for the coalition, according to which cooperation between foreign troops and 350,000 members Afghan security forces continues to go well. "We have about 500,000 soldiers and police working together, (...) in order to fight together for this country has a better future," he added. NATO said 26 such attacks had occurred since January, and had killed 34 people. A spokesman for the ruling coalition, however, said that the latest attack would not swell the stock of attacks called "green blue", Afghan police officers who turn their weapons against Western military.The killer not wearing uniform, it was a priori not part of the Afghan security forces. Isolated attacks also seem to also affect the Afghan forces. Nine Afghan policemen have been killed Saturday in the region of Nimroz, when two uniformed men opened fire after passing a checkpoint near Delaram, said local police chief Mohammad Musa Rasoli. "The two men were killed by police after a checkpoint nearby. We are investigating whether these were police officers or uniformed insurgents," he said. Attacks known as "blue green"-because of the respective colors of uniforms, have seriously eroded trust between the allies while combat troops from NATO are preparing to transfer full responsibility for security to Afghans to by 2014. The current upsurge in violence in Afghanistan is the largest since the overthrow of the Taliban government in 2001. At least six civilians were also killed Friday in Helmand province, a bomb placed on the roadside have detonated their vehicle.