6 Americans killed in one day in Afghanistan– –Do you think Romney/Ryan will get our troops out of Afghanistan?

KABUL,
Afghanistan — An Afghan working on an installation shared by Afghan and
foreign forces shot to death three U.S. service members, raising to six
the number of Americans killed by their Afghan partners in a single
day, officials said Saturday.

The newly announced killings took
place Friday, the same day that an Afghan policeman gunned down three
U.S. Marines in a separate attack in southern Afghanistan.

Such
assaults are on the rise and have heightened mistrust between foreign
forces and the Afghan soldiers, police and others they are training and
mentoring.

Four of the attacks occurred in the past week, raising
questions about the safety of international trainers more than 10 years
into the war. The U.S.-led coalition insists the attacks do not
represent the overall security situation in Afghanistan and that they
have not impeded ongoing work to hand over security to Afghan forces by
the end of 2014.

Most of the attacks have been carried out by
Afghan police and soldiers or militants wearing their uniforms. There
have been 26 such attacks so far this year, resulting in 34 deaths,
according to the U.S.-led coalition.

The Taliban claimed
responsibility for both attacks on Friday in Helmand province — an area
of the south where insurgents have wielded their greatest influence.

In the first attack, an Afghan police officer shot and killed three Marines
after sharing a pre-dawn meal with them in the volatile Sangin
district, according to Afghan officials. A U.S. Defense Department
official confirmed that the dead Americans were Marine Special
Operations Forces.

Sangin's district chief and the Taliban both
identified the gunman as Asadullah, a member of the Afghan National
Police who was helping the Marines train the Afghan Local Police, a
village-level defense force overseen by the Ministry of Interior. The
district chief, Mohammad Sharif, said the shooting happened at a police
checkpoint after a joint meal and a security meeting. The meal took
place before dawn because of Ramadan, the month in which Muslims abstain
from food during daylight hours.

Sidiq Sidiqi, a spokesman for
the Afghan Ministry of Interior, told reporters on Saturday that the
shooter may have been a member of the Afghan Local Police, rather than
the National Police. He said investigators were still reviewing the
case.

Then at around 9 p.m. Friday in the Garmser district farther
south, an Afghan working on an installation shared by coalition and
Afghan forces shot and killed three other international troops, said
Maj. Lori Hodge, a spokesman for the coalition in Kabul. A U.S. defense
official confirmed the three victims also were Americans.

Hodge said both shooters had been detained.

Sidiqi
said initial reports indicated that the gunman in the Garmser attack
was a student not associated with the Afghan police forces.

But
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi told The Associated Press that a
member of the Afghan security forces in Garmser killed the international
soldiers.

Helmand has been particularly deadly for these
so-called "green-on-blue" attacks. Since 2009, 18 international
soldiers, including 14 from Britain, have been killed in such attacks in
Helmand. The most recent was on July 1 when three British service
members were killed in Sangin by a gunman wearing an Afghan National
Civil Order Police uniform.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai
condemned the latest killings, ordered investigations into the incidents
and directed relevant Afghan authorities to work to ensure the safety
within training and security institutions.

"The enemy who does not
want to see Afghanistan have a strong security force, targets military
trainers," Karzai said in a statement.