U.S. Army 1st Lt. Robert Wolfe, right, escorts Jim Otwell, left, a U.S. Agency for International Development field program officer, to the Directorate of Education in Farah City, Afghanistan, Feb. 26, 2013. Wolfe, a platoon leader, is assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah. The team met with the provincial education director and visited Aboonaser-Farahi High School, Farah City's oldest high school. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. j.g. Matthew Stroup
Afghan Police Officer Drugs 17 Colleagues Before Calling His Taliban Masters To Come And Help Shoot Them Dead -- Daily Mail
* Atrocity took place in a remote outpost in the eastern province of Ghazi
* Latest in a spate of 'green-on-blue' attacks involving Afghan security forces
* Suicide bomber targets bus of soldiers in capital Kabul
* Nato forced to backtrack on claims that Taliban attacks are falling
An Afghan police officer drugged 17 of his colleagues at a remote outpost before calling Taliban insurgents who arrived and helped him shoot them all dead.
The shocking incident, the latest in a series of so-called 'insider', or green-on-blue, attacks involving Afghan security forces and the Taliban, took place in the eastern province of Ghazni.
The lightly trained Afghan Local Police, a village-level force backed by U.S. troops and overseen by the Ministry of the Interior, is tasked with helping bring security to remote areas.
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