FREINDLY ARGUMENT TURN NASTY: VETERAN AFGHAN PILOT KILLS 8 NATO TROOPS

KABUL, Afghanistan - The Afghan officer, who was a veteran military pilot, fired on the foreigners after an argument. The shooting occurred in an operations room of the Afghan Air Corps at Kabul airport.
As a results, Eight Nato troops and a contractor died on after an Afghan military pilot opened fire in a meeting — the deadliest episode to date of an Afghan turning against his own coalition partners, officials said.

• "Suddenly, in the middle of the meeting, shooting started," said Afghan Air Corps spokesman Colonel Bahader, who uses only one name.
• "After the shooting started, we saw a number of Afghan army officers and soldiers running out of the building. Some were even throwing themselves out of the windows to get away."
• The nationalities of the eight NATO service members have not been released. However CNN says that six of those NATO soldiers were Americans. Five Afghan soldiers were wounded. At least one Afghan soldier was shot in the wrist while most of the soldiers suffered broken bones and cuts, Bahader said.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the shooting and offered his condolences to the relatives of the victims. He ordered his defence and security officials to investigate.

Source: Agency