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Afghan militiaman kills 9 colleagues

Assailant drugged, shot members of irregular force

By Farooq Jan Mangal and Matthew Rosenberg

 |  New York Times  

  March 31, 2012

A member of an Afghan militia promoted by the U.S. military to protect rural villages drugged his colleagues and killed at least nine of them as they slept Friday, the third deadly episode involving the irregular guard force in March. The killings added to concerns about the militia, known as the Afghan Local Police.

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