Insider attacks fraying trust between American, Afghan troops
Posted: October 21, 2012 at 4:08 a.m.
Workers lift a cow, bound up for its own safety, out of a truck Saturday at a market in Kabul.
There is an Afghan version of the story and a very different American one, but the moral is the same: Insider killings of Western troops and civilians by Afghan forces, which have taken 51 coalition lives this year, have broken trust between the two military forces and laid bare the anger and fear each harbors toward the other.
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