An Afghan Air Corps pilot, angered by a dispute with nine us trainers at the Kabul airport, fired from a gun on the Americans, disarmed and methodically killed, officials said today.
The shooter then apparently shot and killed himself.
The Afghan army, said that the shooter was a 20 year veteran of the Afghan Air Corps who had already obtained in an argument with American trainers at a meeting in a conference room at the headquarters of the Afghan Air Force.
A U.S. official told ABC News, they believe the driver have left the meeting after the argument, then returned and forced the Americans to remove their weapons before their shooting with a provided American M9 semiautomatic weapon.
"After the shooting began, we have seen a number of Afghan army officers and soldiers of the building running." Some have even themselves cast out of Windows to escape, ", said the spokesman for the Afghan Air Corps colonel Bahader."
A rapid reaction force arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting and found the gunman dead. Officials believe that the gunman committed suicide.
The dead include eight members of U.S. military personnel and an American contractor. Five Afghan soldiers were also injured in the shooting, said Bahader.
It is the most deadly incident so far of an Afghan ally turn against its coalition partners, said responsible. It is the seventh time this year that the coalition troops or Afghan security forces were killed by two members of the force of Afghan security or insurgents posing as them.
The Taliban claimed that the shooter was an insurgent who pass for an agent to access the secure area. Spokesman of the Taliban that zabiullah Mujahid said the spoofed shooter officer and obtained access to the facility with other people who work.
The Taliban were known to take credit for that they are not connected to attacks, and the Ministry of defence spokesman Afghan General Mohammad Zahir Azimi, said the shooter worked "for 20 years, the Afghan Air Force flight" and was not an insurgent.
"An argument that is passed between him and foreigners, and we have to study that," Azimi said.
An Afghan driver who request not to be named, said the shooter Ahmad Gul of 50 years of Tarakhail district of Kabul province.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the violence and ordered its defence and security officials to investigate the causes of the recent incidents.
Other Incidents:
18 April - one insurgent killed two Afghan soldiers and an officer in the Afghan Defence Ministry.
April 16 - Afghan American troops of Six, four soldiers and an interpreter are killed when an Afghan soldier detonates an explosive vest at Forward Operating Base Gamberi in Laghman.
April 15: a suicide bomber posing as a police officer explodes himself within complex Kandahar police prefecture, killing the right top enforcement official in the southern province.
April 4-two American military personnel is shot and killed by a man wearing a uniform of Afghan border police.
February - an Afghan soldier shoots nine German soldiers, killing three and wounding six.
January - an Italian soldier was killed and another injured after an Afghan soldier opens fire on them.
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