Afghan policewoman fatally shoots foreign adviser
KABUL: A female Afghan police officer shot dead a NATO
civilian adviser inside Kabul police headquarters on Monday, officials
said, in the first "insider" attack by a woman.
It was the latest in a series of such attacks that have seriously
undermined trust between NATO forces and their Afghan allies in the
fight against hardline Taliban insurgents.
A spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
said the adviser died of his wounds and the female police officer who
shot him had been detained.
In another insider attack on Monday, the head of a local police post
in the northern province of Jawzjan shot dead five of his colleagues and
ran away to join the Taliban, said provincial police chief Abdul Aziz
Ghairat. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Seidiqqi confirmed the Kabul
incident and said an investigation was under way, while a senior
security official speaking to AFP anonymously said the victim was a male
adviser from NATO.
A US military official said on condition of anonymity that the
adviser was American. A different official said he worked for DynCorp, a
private security contractor. -
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