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BY SAMANTHA KUBOTA

ANCHOR ANA COMPAIN-ROMERO

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France suspends its training operations in Afghanistan and threatens to withdraw its entire force from the country. This comes after an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French troops Friday and wounded seventeen others.

Euronews reports that President Nicolas Sarkozy is sending the defense minister and the head of the armed forces to Afghanistan and until they arrive, French armies in Afghanistan will not be helping Afghan forces.

“We are friends with the Afghan people, we are the allies of the Afghan people, but I cannot accept that Afghan soldiers shoot French soldiers,” said Sarkozy.

The French foreign minister is quoted in the Telegraph as saying it a question of "responsibility to adapt our timetable for withdrawal by taking into account these new circumstances."

France has 3,600 troops in Afghanistan, and the withdrawl could hurt the NATO plan to build and train Afghan forces.  CNN reports the US Department of Defense is worried about the possible pull-out.

Congressional blog The Hill is reporting the White House is reacting “cautiously.”

“The White House press secretary said Friday he didn't want to ‘get ahead’ of a possible decision made by France.”

The Daily Telegraph and USA TODAY reports this is the second attack of its kind in two months.

The killings Friday during a training exercise followed a similar attack last month when an Afghan soldier shot and killed two members of the French Foreign Legion.

                 
France is worried these aren’t isolated incidents.  It is raising questions of infiltration into the new Afghan army.  And this could make Sarkozy even more likely to bump up the date to  pull out of Afghanistan.