Carry your gun at all times, British troops are ordered: Afghan ‘traitor’ killings trigger security blitz

Excellent advice. It is a testament to how far down the slope of totalitarianism we have already come that to obey this excellent and obvious advice as a non-criminal, productive member of a ‘free’ society we could face a decade or more in jail (at least in Canada) for being prepared to defend ourselves.

Daily Mail:

By Ian Drury

PUBLISHED: 16:40 GMT, 2 October 2012 | UPDATED: 06:33 GMT, 3 October 2012

British troops are carrying loaded weapons at all times inside Camp Bastion to protect themselves against insider attacks by rogue Afghan soldiers and policemen.

Servicemen and women moving around Britain’s main base in Afghanistan have been told to carry their personal firearm following a spate of ‘green on blue’ murders, in which allied troops are killed by the local forces they are training.

US General John Allen, the top soldier in the warzone, is understood to have issued a fresh directive to coalition forces at all bases in the country in mid-August.

Troops at Camp Bastion, pictured, are now carrying loaded weapons with that at all times because of the rise of 'green on blue' attacksTroops at Camp Bastion, pictured, are now carrying loaded weapons with that at all times because of the rise of ‘green on blue’ attacks

Precautions were originally bolstered in the spring after US defence secretary Leon Panetta was the target of a suicide attack at Camp Bastion by an Afghan worker driving a stolen vehicle.

This year, rogue security forces have killed more than 51 coalition troops – including nine British servicemen.

A serving British soldier told the Mail: ‘Whether we’re going to the canteen or out for a run, we have to have a loaded weapon with us so we are able to react in an instant.

Some see it as an inconvenience but safety and security is paramount.’

 

Camp Bastion, in Helmand province, is home to most of the 9,500 UK troops in Afghanistan and thousands of local employees and contractors.

Afghan forces are not allowed inside with a weapon.

Details about the latest directive emerged as the head of Nato admitted that insider attacks were sapping morale and had damaged relations between international forces and the Afghan police and military.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Nato’s secretary-general, said: ‘There is no doubt that insider attacks have undermined trust and confidence, absolutely.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has admitted that the attacks, where troops are killed by the Afghan forces they are training, are sapping morale NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has admitted that the attacks, where troops are killed by the Afghan forces they are training, are sapping morale

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4 Replies to “Carry your gun at all times, British troops are ordered: Afghan ‘traitor’ killings trigger security blitz”

  1. we should pull out now, unannounced and leave them to fester in their own sh*thole of a country.
    let them go back to the 7th century and kill themselves off.

  2. This is chillingly headed toward something similar to the exit of US forces from Saigon in the 70s.It was embarrassing and not prettyi–helicopters taking off of the roof of the embassy while people who wanted out desperately tried to get in and at the same time the enemy coming over the walls. Let’s hope Obsma and Hillary –Cameron, as well–will not stupidly let it get to that point. What, shooting their way out and leaving expensive equipment for the Taliban to crow about? Or a hostage situation? Better to launch an offensive and take no prisoners. “…nuke em from orbit…it”s the only way to be sure…” Alien II

  3. No bilbo, not yet. There is still plenty of business that has to be done before that. It is vital that we continue to take the “light of democracy, freedom and the equality of men and women” to other Islamic countries. I realise that our success rate has been zero till now. We have tried it in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco, but no success. But our goal is noble, and we have to carry on so that future generations will not blame us for not trying hard enough.

    Now for casualties. This is sad. The fact remains that we are in a major war – a Third world war really, given the geographic reach of the area of conflict ( this includes the West), though it has not been declared. Given this, casualties have to be expected. You and I are likely to be casualties as well.