killing US soldiers do not represent a trend that should derail ongoing negotiations with the Afghans on night raid operations and other issues.

[waka....@yahoo.com.sg]

Now
it is Not a TREND ,
but
in the FUTURE,
attacks on Americans in AFGHANISTAN will be NORMAL DAILY
ACTIVITIES .



Mar 27, 11:10 am, rst0 <rst0w...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Panetta says attacks by Afghans are not a trendhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/03/26/internati...
> LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press
> Monday, March 26, 2012
> (03-26) 19:01 PDT OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada (AP) --
>
> Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday that the killing of U.S.
> and NATO troops by Afghans are sporadic incidents and do not represent
> a trend that should derail ongoing negotiations with the Afghans on
> night raid operations and other issues.
>
> Speaking to reporters en route to Canada, Panetta said the attacks —
> including two separate incidents Monday that killed two British troops
> and one American — should not detract from the highly sensitive
> discussions about how the U.S. should coordinate with the Afghans on
> military raids into Afghan homes.
>
> In separate comments also on Monday, the top U.S. commander in
> Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, said that the U.S. is "at a pretty
> delicate moment in the negotiations" over the night raids. But, Allen
> added, "I am confident that we will end up where we want to be on both
> sides."
>
> Under a draft agreement that is expected to be signed this week,
> Afghan military units would take a larger role in planning and
> carrying out the raids, and an Afghan judge or panel would have a say,
> if not full veto, over the operations.
>
> Panetta said the so-called green-on-blue attacks, in which Afghans
> kill U.S. or coalition troops, should not erode the trust between the
> two nations, or detract from the main strategy, which is to transfer
> control of security to the Afghans.
>
> "There are going to be those that are vengeful, there are going to be
> those that decide to use this as a way to express their anger and
> their concern," Panetta said. "These still are sporadic incidents, and
> I don't think they reflect any kind of broad pattern."
>
> Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told
> reporters traveling with him to Bogota, Colombia, on Monday that the
> key to ending the problem is improving the Afghans' own
> counterintelligence capabilities.
>
> "We've done every possible thing we can do," Dempsey said.
>
> He acknowledged the risk to U.S. and other coalition forces as they
> train, advise and mentor Afghan security forces.
>
> "I can tell you definitively that at this point our national security
> interests are such that we have to take the additional risks that this
> brings," Dempsey said in an interview aboard his Air Force C-17
> aircraft.
>
> Panetta is in Ottawa to meet with the defense ministers of Canada and
> Mexico, the beginning of what U.S. officials hope will be a continuing
> effort to address shared security threats, including drug trafficking,
> cyber breaches and border issues.
>
> Panetta said the three countries will talk about common challenges
> with a focus on how they can improve intelligence sharing and threat
> assessments.
>
> __
>
> Associated Press writer Robert Burns contributed to this report.
>
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