Another Apparent Afghan Insider Attack Kills US Service Member

"Insider, or green-on-blue, attacks, in which Afghan troops or security forces turn on a coalition partner, have always been a threat in Afghanistan. This year, however, they’ve claimed a particularly high number of U.S. and coalition lives in high-profile incidents.

In July, Army Cpl. Joseph Maciel was killed and two troops wounded in one such attack in the Tarin Kowt district of Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province. Two months later, on September 3, Command Sergeant Major Timothy Bolyard, the senior enlisted adviser to the Army’s new 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade, was killed in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province.

On Oct. 22, another apparent insider attack in Herat province, to the West, killed a NATO service member and killed a top Afghan police official, Gen. Abdul Raziq. The commander of all U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Gen. Austin “Scott” Miller, was present but uninjured."