Afghan policeman shoots dead two US soldiers

Upon receiving the gun as a gift at the start of his training in the far Western province of Farah, the newly-recruited village policeman turned it on the American soldiers training him and killed two of them. This was the seventh time in two weeks that uniformed Afghanis had attacked US troops.
Thursday, seven Americans and four Afghanis died in a NATO helicopter crash in the restive Kandahar province of Shah Wali Kot, It was claimed by the Taliban.