A man with the Afghan Border Police shot and killed six American troops during a training mission in eastern Afghanistan on Monday.
The man was also killed in the incident, the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) said in a news release. The Taliban claimed responsibility by e-mail and stated the shooter specifically joined the border police in order to kill foreign soldiers, AP report.
A joint Afghan and ISAF investigation team was sent to the remote district of Pachir Wagam near Pakistan. The shooting is the deadliest one in a string of incidents where members of the Afghan security forces turned on their ISAF partners.
As part of the U.S.-lead mission, ISAF provides training sessions to prepare locally recruited security forces that will provide security in Afghanistan by 2014. In a short time, the predominantly illiterate and untrained Afghan forces have grown by a third.
The man was also killed in the incident, the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) said in a news release. The Taliban claimed responsibility by e-mail and stated the shooter specifically joined the border police in order to kill foreign soldiers, AP report.
A joint Afghan and ISAF investigation team was sent to the remote district of Pachir Wagam near Pakistan. The shooting is the deadliest one in a string of incidents where members of the Afghan security forces turned on their ISAF partners.
As part of the U.S.-lead mission, ISAF provides training sessions to prepare locally recruited security forces that will provide security in Afghanistan by 2014. In a short time, the predominantly illiterate and untrained Afghan forces have grown by a third.
