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Transcript by Newsy: http://www.youtube.com/user/NewsyWorld BY NATHAN BYRNE ANCHOR ZACH TOOMBS Eight NATO troops have been killed in Afghanistan in the last three days. An Afghan peace envoy now joins that list of casualties. Al Jazeera reports Arsala Rahmani was a former Taliban minister. " ... and for this reason, President Hamid Karzai believed he could help negotiate peace with the group. His killing in a drive-by shooting in Kabul now raises doubts over those efforts." The Taliban isn't claiming responsibility for Rahmani's death. But a CNN correspondent points to a message in the group's announcement of its summer campaign. "They said that such members of what's known as the High Peace Council, like Arsala Rahmani, would be targets for assassinations. So, you can read in many different ways their denying involvement in this killing ... " A day earlier, Afghan police allegedly killed two British troops. Fox News sees a pattern emerging. "It is the latest, as you may know, in a string of incidents in which Afghan security forces or militants dressed as policemen turned their weapons on their international military partners." According to The New York Times ... "NATO said ... the attackers were not actually trained police officers but insurgents who were wearing police uniforms. ... In a separate episode on Saturday, a coalition soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan ... " One correspondent for the BBC says each attack begets more violence. " ... it highlights the tension and the mistrust that has been there after these shootings." Reporters for the Los Angeles Times say an Afghan special forces sergeant killed an American Green Beret on a military base Friday. The article calls it, quote, "part of a worrisome trend in Afghanistan."