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Briton and South African shot dead in Kabul by their Afghan security guard
* Update: “Militants” Gouge Out Afghan Man’s Eyes in Front of Family
“Officials said that they remained unsure of the motive for the killing and were investigating the guard’s background,” although infiltration is being acknowledged as a possibility. The grave difficulty that Westerners have in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere is that there is no reliable way to determine who is really on their side and who is on the side of the jihadists, no matter how many bridges have been built and how many hearts and minds won.
“Briton and his colleague killed by their Afghan security guard,” by Tom Coghlan for The Times, October 27 (thanks to JW):
A British man and his South African colleague became the latest victims of deteriorating security in Kabul when they were shot dead outside their office by a security guard who then killed himself.










       