“Now an ordinary American working in Afghanistan today doesn’t know whether he should expect a bullet from Afghan Taliban or from an Afghan policeman whom he might have trained earlier.”-Ahmed Quraishi, analyst
USMC General John Allen says U.S. led military advisers are being withdrawn from the Interior Ministry, and other government locations “for obvious force protection reasons”.
“Taliban” websites have praised the February 25 killings of four U.S. officers. U.S. media reported two officers killed, or that two were U.S. officers.
Reports now say it was an Afghan police officer that killed the four U.S./NATO officers.
In eastern Afghanistan, hundreds of people tried to attack the governor’s office in Laghman province. In Logar province shootings broke out between protestors and security forces.