Diggers shoot dead Afghan cop

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Diggers shoot dead Afghan cop
Topic Started: Aug 12 2009, 09:45 AM (74 Views)
Sayf Udeen Ismaeel	Aug 12 2009, 09:45 AM Post #1
Icon by meagan_chelsea @ LJ Posts: 7,579 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 2, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Muslim Political View All over the shop.	Diggers shoot dead Afghan cop AN Afghan police officer has been shot dead and another wounded by Australian soldiers after they failed to stop at a security checkpoint. The two Afghan men were travelling on a motorcycle when they failed to comply with verbal and visual signals to stop at the checkpoint at Dorafshan, north of the Australian base at Tarin Kowt. The Australian soldier came under small arms fire following the incident. Acting Chief of Joint Operations Command, Air Vice Marshal Greg Evans, said the two Afghan men were not wearing uniforms at the time of the incident. "According to incident reporting, the men were later confirmed by Afghan National Police as being ANP members although they were not wearing uniforms and did not identify themselves as police members," he said. The wounded Afghan was evacuated to the Tarin Kowt military hospital for emergency treatment while the body of the deceased man would be handed to ANP. The Australian troops involved had been deployed north of Tarin Kowt as part of pre-election security operations. The Australian Defence Force has launched an investigation into the incident. In another incident, a Bushmaster struck an improvised explosive device during a routine patrol in Oruzgan Province, but no Australians were wounded. Australia has deployed an additional 120 soldiers to Afghanistan as part of the international Election Support Force. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25920454-23109,00.html



gingerwitch28	Aug 12 2009, 10:49 AM Post #2
twenty-first century ennui Posts: 1,688 Group: Members Member #589 Joined: Apr 18, 2009 Gender Female Religious Views Atheist Political View Social Democracy	They call regular Australian soldiers 'diggers'? Thought that only applied to WW1.



Neo	Aug 12 2009, 02:36 PM Post #3
Posts: 65 Group: Members Member #388 Joined: Nov 7, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Hindu	In any case, it's a classic example of carelessness which leads to so many of these incidents.



Sayf Udeen Ismaeel	Aug 12 2009, 09:26 PM Post #4
Icon by meagan_chelsea @ LJ Posts: 7,579 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 2, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Muslim Political View All over the shop.	gingerwitch28 Aug 12 2009, 10:49 AM They call regular Australian soldiers 'diggers'? Thought that only applied to WW1. From news I've been reading lately, yes, they apparently do.



AgentMcgee	Oct 24 2009, 01:40 PM Post #5
Posts: 2 Group: Members Member #481 Joined: Jan 3, 2009 Gender Undisclosed Religious Views Atheist Political View Politics is only buisness	I was wondering what diggers meant...



Freki	Oct 24 2009, 03:15 PM Post #6
Posts: 814 Group: Members Member #593 Joined: Apr 24, 2009 Gender Undisclosed Religious Views Atheist Political View Frekiocracy	Seeing as this thread is revived anyway ... What an awful headline. They really should've placed the "dead" at the end: Diggers shoot Afghan cop dead. As it was, it reads like diggers found a pre-killed Afghan cop and then shot the corpse.



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