Friday, April 29, 2011

Afghanistan: SNAFU

At least nine American members of the NATO occupation force were killed today in Kabul Airport when an apparent argument with a pilot turned into a shootout. The pilot killed eight NATO soldiers and one NATO civilian contractor before being slain himself.

The pilot had been employed as a pilot for 20 years, although the Afghan Defense Ministry claimed today that he suffered from some unnamed “mental illness.”

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It is the second time in as many week that eight NATO soldiers have been killed in a single day, and raised the already record April death toll even further.

  Antiwar

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