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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): It happened again today -- twice, in fact. Afghan forces turned their guns on international troops.
In Farah province, a new police recruit shot and killed two Americans just minutes after receiving his gun to begin training. And in Kandahar province, an Afghan soldier wounded two coalition troops. There was no word on their nationalities.
That made seven incidents in two weeks involving shooters in Afghan army or police uniforms, so-called green-on-blue attacks. In all, there have been 29 such attacks so far in 2012, nearly double the figure from last year. At least 37 foreign troops have been killed, including 21 Americans.
The toll for all of last year was 35 coalition deaths; 24 were Americans.
For more, we turn to Mark Thompson, "TIME" magazine's Pentagon reporter.
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