Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Afghanistan War News Updates -- February 27, 2013

Afghan Local Police are a separate squad trained by international forces stationed in remote areas [Reuters]

Twenty Afghan Police Officers Killed in Two Attacks -- New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — Suspected Taliban infiltrators killed 20 Afghan policemen in two attacks on Wednesday, including a mass poisoning, in southeastern Afghanistan.

In Ghazni Province, a group of 17 Afghan policemen who had just been trained by the Americans were drugged into comatose stupors by comrades while on duty and then shot to death in what appeared to be the single worst incident in a string of similar attacks, according to Afghan officials and an insurgent spokesman.

In Kandahar Province, three policemen were killed in what the Taliban said was an attack carried out by one of its supporters, although police officials attributed the killings to a relative of one of the victims.

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More News On Afghanistan

Taliban poison, kill 17 Afghans in attack in east
-- AP
Afghan police officer drugs, kills 17 colleagues -- Reuters
Afghan militants shoot, kill 17 while victims slept -- CNN
Attack on Afghan police post leaves 17 dead -- BBC
Taliban kill 16 at Afghan police checkpoint -- AFP
Afghans killed in Taliban 'poison attack' -- Al Jazeera
Taliban Attack Kills 16 Afghans
-- Voice of America
Suicide bomber strikes Afghan army bus full of soldiers in capital, wounding 7 people -- FOX News/AP

Suicide blast rock capital Kabul, 8 injured
-- Khaama Press
Afghans protest against US special forces in Wardak -- Khaama Press
Dunford meets Karzai to discuss Wardak security concerns -- Khaama Press
NATO may keep up to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014 -- Global Post/EFE
MOBILE WORLD: Afghanistan Welcomes the Digital Age - Telecoms Minister -- FOX News

Out of Afghanistan: William Polk Answers a Critic
-- James Fallows, The Atlantic
Afghanistan’s partition might be unpreventable -- Brahma Chellaney, Japan Times
The Afghan Rules -- Strategy Page

Camp Pendleton Marine KIA, first in 2013 -- MyDesert.com
US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,047 -- AP

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