Afghanistan Violence: U.S. Colonel, Major Killed At Interior Ministry, Officials Say

KABUL, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Two Americans who were shot dead on Saturday inside the Interior Ministry in Afghanistan's capital Kabul are believed to be a colonel and a major in the U.S. military, Afghan security sources told Reuters.

The Interior Ministry said in a statement that two "foreign partners" had been killed, but said it was not immediately clear who shot them. (Reporting by Hamid Shalizi, Writing by Amie Ferris-Rotman; Editing by Michael Georgy)

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[mango tree]

09:12 AM on 02/26/2012

the terrorists are looking to kill Americans. Apologizing and ducking and running only encourages them to kill more people and to commit acts of Terror on US soil.

[f1nesse101]

11:33 PM on 02/25/2012

The moderators seem to be moving in slow motion tonight.

[f1nesse101]

11:31 PM on 02/25/2012

NATO and US forces should pull out now from Afghanistan. Let Karzai become a martyr when the Taliban comes for his head. We spend our tax dollars to try and give them a better country and they spitefully use us. To the devil for all of them. Too bad Bush had to do away with Saddam Hussein, he could have gone to Afghanistan and did his famous ethnic cleansing act. No wonder he was so evil, that is the only thing these people know and understand. It makes me angry.

[ewalter899]

09:51 PM on 02/25/2012

You can pee on them, just don't burn their Quran.

[fireart]

03:30 PM on 02/25/2012

The picture looks a lot like our OWS group or a union rally.

[theaetetus]

02:11 PM on 02/25/2012

a colonel and a major? wow. thats bad.

[novictim]

11:34 AM on 02/25/2012

The of killing people for drawing cartoons or or the killings for the burning of books should carry the maximum penalty --> these are murders. However, Islam is silent on the condemnation, thus giving tacit support. (Oh, yes, Salman Rushdie doesn't support these murders...but everyone who counts(Governments, popular figures) IS SILENT...listen and you hear the crickets!)

Those who support these murders should themselves be subject to the maximum penalty.
We have a clash of cultures between the secular West and the Muslim East. There is by no means a unity of belief on either side. However, liberals need to step forward to declare their allegiance.

We recipients of the liberal secular tradition, a tradition that has countless martyrs burned by the Christian and political institutions of their time, need to be realistic, honest, and MILITANT about defining the incompatibility of the Islamists view and that of Western Liberal Secularism.

And let's leave Afghanistan ASAP->now.

[Ukridge]

11:39 AM on 02/25/2012

Leaving ASAP is what we are currently doing.

[Dan Stewart]

11:56 AM on 02/25/2012

Really?  Leaving asap would be leaving yesterday.

[fireart]

03:40 PM on 02/25/2012

Islam is not comparable with Islam let alone any other culture. And to call the islamatics a culture is very generious. They certainly have not evolved into a higher species as has every other species and never will because the men enjoy their barbaric mentality and aparently the women do also.

[deepakinsfo]

04:51 PM on 02/25/2012

And the Christians of America are so very enlightened and erudite because they killed one million Muslims in Iraq and rendered another five million homeless who actually had to flee their motherland ? And the Christians of America are so very generous to allow the native American Indians to live on Reservations after usurping their land and raping their women ????? And no one dare call the Christians of America International Gangsters, remember they liberated Vietnam by killing two million Buddhists ?

[MrTown3]

10:58 AM on 02/25/2012

My mom is in Kabul currently. If something happens to her I may make it a point to find the idiot that decided to burn the korans in the first place.

[seanspec]

11:01 AM on 02/25/2012

I hope your mom is safe man. But they said that the taliban was passing coded messages inside them, that's why they destroyed them. May have been smarter to just collect them and ship them out but that was what was reported as the reason.

[MrTown3]

11:10 AM on 02/25/2012

I understand why they should've removed them. Burning them was a d**khead move that I'm quite sure happened on purpose.

[dolfninnyc]

11:12 AM on 02/25/2012

Your mother would be safer in a burka - is that how you want her to serve her country? I'm assuming she's a warrior, not a civilian.

[MrTown3]

11:40 AM on 02/25/2012

She's a civi and my only concern is that she comes back safe.

[Gringostan]

11:20 AM on 02/25/2012

Are you going to burn it in your moms basement?

[Ukridge]

11:25 AM on 02/25/2012

Al Qeada loves that sort of p.r.

[Colonel Angus]

10:44 AM on 02/25/2012

Its so funny to see all the conservatives posting here like they just happened to be reading the Huff Post. You gotta admit they can be well organized by trolling all at once only on specific type stories. They still fail miserably, but they do try hard.

What a sad, sad existence

[seanspec]

10:48 AM on 02/25/2012

Someone had to post intelligently, so the Conservatives decided to do it. At least they are bringing the level of respectability up now.

[Gringostan]

11:21 AM on 02/25/2012

I think you mean throwing it up.

[omobob]

02:50 PM on 02/25/2012

It is noted by those who have read the HuffPo for some time that recently conservatives have come to the HuffPo because Fox Forum feedback takes too long. Oh my.

[GWNumber1]

10:40 AM on 02/25/2012

Our terrorist enemies will always find a safe haven somewhere in the Muslim world.

[Ukridge]

11:26 AM on 02/25/2012

4 of the 9/11 killers came from Germany.

[Rocket448]

01:20 PM on 02/25/2012

Right. But, they weren't Germans.

[dcol]

10:36 AM on 02/25/2012

Afghan's don't want us there. American public doesn't want to be there. We cannot afford this war. Why are we there? And don't give me the typical bull about fighting terrorists. We are creating more terrorists being there than not.

[Ukridge]

11:27 AM on 02/25/2012

If Afghans don't want us there, they should stop saying the opposite.

[dcol]

12:57 PM on 02/25/2012

The only Afghan's saying that are the ones getting paid to do so.

[Pan Demic]

10:36 AM on 02/25/2012

Ah, christianity and islam... both, in their own way, deeply spiritual paths to enlightenment and... not! Boy, I really feel like I'm missing out on some cool rioting, bombing, and other spiritual activities by being a non-believer. Yeah, I can see why you fundies hate us non-theists, what with our attacks on your lifestyle through our propensity towards terror campaigns of debate and discussion using reason and logic. The closest we've got to a Bin Laden of our own is Bill Maher, and his main weapon of mass destruction is snark. (Love ya, Bill)

[fireart]

03:52 PM on 02/25/2012

Bill has done so much for HIMSELF.

[Vernon Gudger]

10:35 AM on 02/25/2012

For all the trolls posting comments. What if President Obama had not apologized, would that have changed the outcome? What if the burning of the Korans was committed without sinister intents and the incident occurred in the US, would that have changed the outcome?

[Ukridge]

10:42 AM on 02/25/2012

If Obama does it, they hate it, and yet they make a hero out of Petraeus who apologized too.

[Colonel Angus]

10:45 AM on 02/25/2012

They dont bother thinking so dont expect a rational answer

[Vernon Gudger]

12:35 PM on 02/25/2012

We have an obligation to the the less erudite among us!

[kharrast]

10:33 AM on 02/25/2012

Non Muslims will never win the hearts and minds of Muslims. In Muslim countries the effort is punishable by death.

[Gringostan]

11:23 AM on 02/25/2012

That ignorance is becoming on you!

[mooncop1]

03:00 PM on 02/25/2012

Check with the muslim sentenced to death in Iran, for switching his religion. The truth is you are either a muslin or you die.

[kharrast]

01:00 PM on 02/25/2012

Enlighten me then.

[fireart]

03:58 PM on 02/25/2012

LOL Too late! His greatest come back will be SOOOoooooo!