Two soldiers of the bodies of U.S. special operations died on Friday after a new recruit from the local police in the province of Farah, western Afghanistan, opened fire on them. The attacks by soldiers and Afghan law enforcement officials against allied troops already account for one in ten deaths among foreign forces in Afghanistan, and highlight the extent to which the Islamist insurgents have infiltrated the security apparatus of a state that at the end , 2014 fully recover its sovereignty. The incident in Farah, the new recruits opened fire on a group of U.S. soldiers, killing two of them and another Afghan recruits. "The attacker was shot and died," said the command of U.S. forces in Afghanistan in a statement. In a separate incident in the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, an Afghan soldier opened fire on foreign soldiers and wounded two of them. The international security force in Afghanistan of NATO did not disclose the nationality of those two soldiers wounded in Kandahar. That bomber was also killed. The Pentagon refers to fratricidal attacks as "green on blue" (for the uniform color of the Afghan and the NATO flag, respectively) and supports that have increased dramatically over the past few months. To date, there have been 31 of them in Afghanistan. Of these, 21 have been fatal. Between January and August, 39 NATO soldiers have died because of them, a figure higher than that recorded throughout 2012.Just last week there were five such attacks, and they killed seven American soldiers. The Guerrilla Taliban have found them an efficient way to decimate the troops out of combat conventional scenarios. In his message to commemorate the end of Ramadan, Mullah Omar, leader of the insurgent group said to be winning the war and stressed the importance for him tactics are infiltration in the ranks of Afghan security forces. "The mujahideen have infiltrated, intelligently, in the ranks of the enemy, according to a plan that was given last year," Omar said in that message, intercepted and translated by SITE Intelligence Group. "The foreign invaders and their allies in schools and military bases suffer crushing blows by these heroic soldiers," the rebel leader. The commander of the allied troops in Afghanistan, U.S. General John Allen , was accused yesterday of trying to manipulate public opinion in a statement with harsh words: "Pride of Afghan citizens has been betrayed by murderers who pretend to be soldiers and police , yet still represent the worst of humanity. " What should Omar adds, "is to stop being massacred innocent Afghans." Culminate in 2014 the withdrawal of allied troops in Afghanistan. This summer they are withdrawing 30,000 troops from the U.S., leaving the American military contingent by 68,000 men and women until December.Then, that same army Afghan Guerrilla infiltrated the Taliban now, begin to assume full control over the security of a country that has 11 years under the aegis of NATO. At the Pentagon concerned about the fratricidal attack. "The truth is that the Taliban have been able to gain any ground lost, and now resort to this type of attack to wreak havoc," said Secretary of Defense recently, Leon Panetta. U.S. military sources have said recently that not all such attacks "green on blue" are due to insurgent activity. Suggest that a considerable number of them have been caused by disputes or personal vendettas on military bases.
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