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'Green-on-blue' attacks in Afghanistan

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An Afghan police officer shot and killed at least three American Special Forces soldiers on Aug. 10, 2012, after inviting them for a meal at a check post in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said.

Killings by Afghan forces of their coalition counterparts have intensified in recent years in Afghanistan, where the military’s nomenclature for such attacks — it calls them green-on-blue killings — has entered widespread usage. - New York Times

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