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Malou Innocent, a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute in Washington, said the incident “reflects the deepening mistrust between the coalition and their Afghan counterparts.” She added that the incident exemplifies the “poor communication” between coalition and Afghan forces. In the more than 30 attacks Afghan government troops have carried out on NATO forces this year, 51 service members, mostly Americans, have died, more than the last two years combined, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports. U.S. and NATO forces suspended joint field operations with the Afghans last month because they became such a problem, Martin reported. Just last week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the joint operations had resumed although the reasoning behind the suspension appeared to have changed. On Wednesday, ISAF Deputy Commander Adrian Bradshaw, a British lieutenant general, told reporters that the suspension was related to the violent protests stemming from an American-made online video ridiculing the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. Bradshaw also insisted that insider attacks accounted for 4 percent of the war’s total casualties, even as reporters pointed out that they represent one-fifth of casualties from this year. His attempt to downplay the effect of the attacks contrasted with recent comments by NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who acknowledged the strain they’ve put on international troops, CBS Radio News reporter Teri Schultz reports. “No doubt insider attacks have undermined trust and confidence, absolutely,” Fogh Rasmussen said Monday. Outside Combat Outpost Little Blue, north of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Army Staff Sgt. Stephen Christopher Whitfield told CBS News correspondent Charlie D’Agata that he was concerned having his base right next to another base manned by armed Afghan forces. “Of course it does, with the insider threats that are taking place in the last couple of months,” said Whitfield, “but you deal with whatever situation you have, and we’ve never had a problem out here.” Innocent said recent controversies such as the online video showing U.S. soldiers urinating on dead Taliban fighters and the burning of copies of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, at a military base created the perception of a lack of respect for Afghan cultural values. “This is a sort of a confluence of the factors that created this incident,” Innocent said. Ruben, however, said the attacks go much deeper than a sense of disrespect. “The notion that green-on-blue violence is basically the result of personal problems between Afghan troops and their American partners is nonsense, but the Pentagon doesn’t want to consider the alternative,” he said. That alternative embraced by Ruben, a former Pentagon official who’s now a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School, is that the attacks are ideologically inspired, noting that the attackers aren’t just killing international troops but are also turning their guns on fighters in the Afghan army. “It can’t be solved by being more polite with Afghan colleagues,” Ruben said. In fact, a Taliban commander told CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan in an interview broadcast on CBS’ “60 Minutes” Sunday that insider attacks “part of our new military strategy” and “the orders come from the top.” Al Qaeda fighters have been coming into Afghanistan to work on the attacks with the Taliban, said the commander, who spoke to Logan on condition of anonymity. He told her that more than a dozen Qaeda militants operate under his command. Ruben wouldn’t say whether Saturday’s incident would have happened if Western soldiers didn’t feel threatened by insider attacks. “All I can say,” he said, “is it certainly is going to lead to some itchy trigger fingers.”

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Rescued migrants escaping North Africa expected to arrive Sunday in Spain

Hundreds of migrants escaping violence and poverty in North Africa are due to arrive in Spain on Sunday. They’re aboard the Aquarius — a former German Coast Guard ship now being used for 토토 사이트 추천 안전 놀이터 humanitarian rescues….

Peter’s in July lasted only four hours, he said, and nothing came of it

VATICAN CITY An Italian man gave up his protest atop the St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday evening, after more than 24 hours perched on the 426-foot-high dome to demonstrate against government reforms. Two firefighters helped pull Marcello De Finizio inside…

was “outraged that the Syrians have been shooting across the border,” adding that she intended to discuss the matter with Davutoglu

Updated at 8:37 a.m. Eastern ANKARA, Turkey Turkish artillery fired again Thursday morning on Syrian targets in retaliation for shelling from Syria that struck a border village, 김제출장업소 killing five civilians, including three children. A Turkish official told CBS News…

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Border security has been tighter than usual along the border in the past few years as military and political tensions between the rival Koreas soared

SEOUL, North Korea A North Korean soldier killed two of his officers Saturday and defected to South Korea across the countries’ heavily armed border in a rare crossing that prompted South Korean troops to immediately beef up their border patrol,…

We shook hands.” Pictures: Rihanna Graham said he did not know who the 23-year-old pop star was when he gave permission to use his field for the shoot

(CBS) A farmer in Northern Ireland ordered Rihanna to cover up after she stripped down while filming a music video on his property. “I thought it was inappropriate. I requested them to stop and they did,” Alan Graham told the…

The document was filed on behalf of Kerry Inman, a New Jersey woman who claims that she tried to log into the site to buy tickets to Cyrus’ Atlantic City, N.J., performance at the moment the tickets went on sale and was unsuccessful

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a New Jersey woman and anyone else who joined the Miley Cyrus Fan Club based on its promise that joining would make it easier to get concert tickets from the teen star’s Web…

Heart failure drug, cimaglermin, shows promise in first human trial

Heart failure patients have weakened hearts, but researchers say an experimental drug used for the first time in humans may repair heart cells and improve heart function. According to the results of a small phase 1 trial, a single intravenous…