'Insider Attack': 3 American Contractors Killed Near Kabul Airport by Afghan Soldier

http://bit.ly/1zfNXza Three United States military contractors were reportedly killed in Afghanistan late Thursday, local time, after gunfire erupted at Kabul International Airport’s military facility. US Army Col. Brian Tribus, a spokesman for the NATO-led Resolute Support mission, told reporters that the three contractors were shot and killed in the incident along with an Afghan national, according to Stars and Stripes. Reuters reports that the three were American. An Afghan soldier fired the shots, an official with the country’s air force told Reuters on condition of anonymity, leaving the newswire to preliminary classified the incident as an insider attack. Is it not immediately known if the gunman is among the dead. "It is unclear yet why he shot these advisers and no one else was there to tell us the reason," the official said. "An investigation has been opened." “It wouldn't be appropriate for me to comment on something like that until an investigation has been initiated and complete,” Army Lt. Col. Chris Belcher, a spokesman for the US mission in Afghanistan, said in an email to Military Times. http://bit.ly/1zgjVxv