Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, in an interview with Fox News during his trip to Afghanistan, said that the recent rash of insider attack have loomed over all his discussions there with Gen. John Allen and commanders in the field.
“I’ll tell you what’s different this time than other visits I’ve had,” Dempsey told Fox as combat planes took off from a nearby airfield. “In particular, what’s different about this conversation is that the Afghans themselves are now as seized and concerned about this as we’ve been. That wasn’t always the case.”
Last week after two separate incidents in which six Americans were killed by Afghan insiders, Gen. Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan ordered all coalition personnel to be armed and have their weapons loaded at all times, even on “secure” bases.
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