The NATO occupation force in Afghanistan has confirmed two U.S. soldiers were killed on Thursday when two Afghan shooters, one of them a soldier, opened fire at a southern base. It was at least the second attack in less than a week by an Afghan servicemember on U.S. forces in the ongoing uproar over the burning of copies of the Koran by U.S. soldiers. NATO spokesperson Carsten Jacobson announced the attack.

Carsten Jacobson: “What happened this morning is that a base in southern Afghanistan, at a forward operating base, two individuals, one Afghan National Army soldier and a man in civilian clothes, opened fire indiscriminately on members of that base.”