'More days of pointless carnage in Afghanistan left nine Nato soldiers dead - four of them green-on-blue attacks - and eight women and girls collecting firewood killed by Nato

Let us get this right. In one weekend in Afghanistan, two separate 'green on blue' attacks have left six troops dead - two of them British - killed by Afghan police. Another British soldier was killed by a roadside bomb.

And two US marines were killed when the Taliban attacked Camp Bastion, the heart of occupation military operations. That is nine soldiers in three days. Most alarming for the occupying powers is the green-on-blue attacks by Afghan forces, which now account for around a quarter of Nato deaths.'

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