BOARDING - U.S. Airman 1st Class Claudia Segovia boards a Boeing 737 bound for Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, April 29, 2010, Segovia is assigned to the 492nd Fighter Squadron at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Eboni KnoxThe Enemy Within: Why Coalition Forces Fear Attack By Afghan Comrades -- Times Online
The battle was brief — a sudden stab of tracer fire into the remote police post from the surrounding mountains that left a US staff sergeant bleeding from his face, hit by a ricochet or fragment of flying rock. “It’s like shooting at ghosts,” the soldier beside him complained, staring into the silent darkness after the shooting had stopped.
At least the two soldiers knew which way to face — outwards from their gun position on the roof of Police SubStation 7, on the western outskirts of Kandahar. In the sleeping quarters below, a pair of Canadian police officers, sent there to help to mentor the Afghan National Police (ANP), had trained their guns inwards, on the door of their own accommodation.
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