In U.S. soldier’s death, a window into Afghan insider killings

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Reuters, 26 September 2012
The story of Mabry Anders, from Oregon, killed by Welayat Khan, from Nangrahar, in a so-called green-on-blue shooting, who was subsequently killed by a US helicopter himself while fleeing and cannot tell what his motives were anymore. So what remains are three people dead (including another US soldier) and different versions: about the Taleban hiring him, mental problems, his anger about civilian casualties…