had one security officer around a local militia. what is more, libyan officials say there were warning signs that the consulate might be targeted, including attacks on a british diplomat and red cross in benghazi. last tuesday s assault, they are saying, was not preplanned. it sin explicable and inexcusable that our personnel were not better protected. u.s. military testimolls nbc it is suspending joint operations with afghan forces in response to a growing number of insider attacks that killed more than 50 coalition troops so far this year. atia bowie is live in kabul. we are no longer training
alabama are most suffering. and plaquemines parish seems to have suffered the worst of the flooding. our forces are training afghans to provide their own security. but some of that s come to the expense of american lives. the military taking steps to prevent murderous attacks by afghans. and we go to kabul for the latest development. caught on tape, unfolding at the tracks, a monster truck out of control. heading straight into the crowd. (screams) want to try to crack it? yeah, that s the way to do it! now we need a little bit more. a little bit more vanilla? this is great! [ male announcer ] at humana, we believe there s never been a better time to share your passions because the results. are you having fun doing this? yeah. that s a very nice cake! [ male announcer ] well, you can t beat them. [ giggles ] ohh!
rick: shep is off today, but this is studio b today. another afghan police officer opening fire on u.s. troops killing to soldiers minutes after they handed him the official weapon in an inauguration ceremony, the late nest a growing number of so-called green on blue attacks. according to the report, 20 attacks have killed three dozen coalition troops this year compared to 20 last year. the attacks undermine trust between the coalition fighters and the afghan troops. international combat units continue their withdrawal from afghanistan, notwithstanding. now, give us details on this attack. jonathan: all over afghanistan, united states and nato troops are training afghans to take over security when the united states and the rest of the nato forces leave afghanistan. in this case, they were doing exactly that.
like. it would give bagram a chance to say explicitly, this is what happened, not to have to go all the way to the white house for an explanation. to have bagram and its commander s, this is what happened. in this case this is what happened. we condemn burning of qurans in general but this is specifically what happened. jenna: you wouldn t even involve the higher executives in our own government, you would have handled it on a very local level? i think the problem is when you have to go through multiple chains of command ain t takes so long to respond to the message that you end up in this case not even responding to it at all. jenna: are we playing into the message that we re the bad guys, that we have done something wrong, that we knowingly burned a religious book, that we wanted to incite the afghans, and we are quite frankly naive or belligerent to the fact that that would insult them? are we playing inch too the narrative of the even knee. i think what we re not doing is hig
precautions. this is a serious crisis growing here, u.s. advisers and troops are supposed to be training afghans, but right now they are on lockdown, right now they are not being able to help train afghans. that throws this entire mission, this entire strategy here into question, because the entire strategy senters around training afghans with small groups of u.s. and international troops. right now that mission is not happening, jon. jon: very tense and troubling times, obviously, conor powell, live to us from kabul, thank you, connor. jenna: voters in arizona and michigan less than 24 hours away from hitting the polls from the g.o.p. primaries there. we will concentrate on arizona for a moment. arizona is a winner take all state with a very large hispanic population, 29 delegates at states. a shalicia acuna is live there. reporter: arizona citizens