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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

U.S. soldiers murdered at alarming rate

by Drew Zahn 

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New calculations from WND columnist Diana West suggest the most dangerous murder rate in the world exists not in war-torn Africa or drug-ravaged Columbia, but among U.S.-allied troops being killed by Afghan “friendly” forces.
More than 60 cases of Afghan “allies” murdering members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, were reported in 2012, a rise from 35 so-called “green-on-blue” killings in 2011.
Thus far, the White House has dismissed the killings as few and unrelated, despite rising numbers and repeated claims from the Taliban that the murders are part of an organized campaign to infiltrate the Afghan-Western alliance.
As West pointed out in a recent WND column, Obama campaign adviser and former senior Pentagon official Michele Flournoy minimized the attacks as a “very occasional” problem and a sign of “Taliban desperation.”
“It’s very tragic and it’s very upsetting when these things happen,” said Flournoy, who is currently touted as a possible nominee for secretary of defense. “But they are a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of a percentage of the overall interactions that are happening.” Read More :

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