Nov 4th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
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The British soldiers unstrapped their equipment as they passed through the mud walls of the police compound, having only recently returned from patrolling the Helmand countryside with the men they were mentoring in the Afghan police.
Inside the walls of the checkpoint, rifles were unslung and body armour put aside as the men drank tea, completed paperwork and relaxed after their mission.
But, unknown to the men, one of the Afghan police – a man named Gulbadin – had clambered on to the flat roof of the building above, armed with a powerful PK machine gun. When he started shooting, the soldiers barely had a chance.
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