With “green on blue” attacks by Afghans in uniform increasingly in the news, Americans officials are being asked whether the people of Afghanistan are turning against the coalition troops that have been in the Central Asian nation since late 2001.
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U.S. Marines with 1st Platoon, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines (3/5), Regimental Combat Team 2, in Afghanistan. (January 2010 file photo.)
The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, James Cunningham, told NPR Thursday that it’s not America’s allies who are shooting at U.S. and coalition forces (or in some cases, attacking with suicide bombs).
“These are very unfortunate and sad events, and we and our Afghan partners are working hard to understand what’s happening, why it’s happening, and how we can prevent it,” he told Weekend Edition host Scott Simon, in a conversation due to be broadcast Saturday. “But … while they’re difficult for both of us — they affect the Afghans as well as the [international forces] — they are a minor part of many thousands of interactions that take place between our military forces every day. And we’re determined to find a way to minimize and end them, if we can.”
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Article source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/08/23/159925637/ambassador-to-afghanistan-vast-majority-of-afghans-support-coalition?ft=1&f=1001