Afghan spy agency guard kills two US soldiers

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BAZARAK: An agent from Afghanistan's intelligence unit opened fire at a foreign base on Saturday, killing two soldiers from the NATO-led coalition and wounding a third.

The agent from the National Directorate of Security (NDS)was in the Panjshir valley for personal reasons, when he got into an argument with soldiers from the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), police chief General Qaseem Junglebagh said.

"He had a pistol, opened fire and killed two soldiers from the PRT. He injured a third who opened fire and killed the NDS agent," Junglebagh said. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed there had been a shooting in Panjshir that caused "a number of ISAF casualties" but declined to comment further.

The deaths are the latest in a string of killings of foreign troops by Afghan security forces. Often NATO forces have been targeted by men they were mentoring or fighting beside. The deputy governor of Panjshir, Abdul Rahman Kabiri, also confirmed two soldiers had been killed, and said the NDS agent worked in Kabul but was originally from Panjshir's Dara district, where the shooting took place.