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    Afghan attack kills US troops

    •September 30, 2012
    • Pakistani police officers stand next to wreckage of a damaged vehicle at the site of a roadside bomb blast that killed at least 15 people and wounded 12 others in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border in the Jandol area of lower Dir, Pakistan on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. Officials said they did not know who set off the bomb, but such attacks are common in the country's remote tribal regions, where militants from both Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan are active. (AP Photo/Rohullah Shakir)
    • Afghans burn the U.S. flag in Ghanikhel district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 during a protest against an anti-Islam film which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
    • An Afghan girl adjusts her burqa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
    • An Afghan boy reads the Quran during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim year that lasts around 30 days, which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset. (AP Photo/Ahmad Nazar)
    • Pashtoon Yar, 35, an Afghan disabled man welds at a metal shop in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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    An Afghan girl adjusts her burqa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

    An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American troops

    at a checkpoint in the country's east, killing two Americans and at

    least two fellow members of Afghanistan's army in a shooting that marked

    both the continuance of a disturbing trend of insider attacks and the 2,000th U.S. troop death in the long-running war. (AP)