Three Grenadier Guards and two members of the Royal Military Police Murdered
Three Grenadier Guards and two members of the Royal Military Police were shot dead by a police officer who entered their secure compound in Helmand province. Six others were seriously wounded alongside two Afghans.
Although the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, the gunman, who escaped and was being hunted by British Special Forces, was recognized by guards and had been a member of the Afghan National Police for three years.
Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Resolutions of 1798: "In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."