French Army Captain Christophe Schnetterle, 45, died on March 27 from injuries sustained on January 20, 2012, when he and other French soldiers came under attack on their base in Kapisa, Afghanistan by one of their "partners," an Afghan Army member. The attack initially drove French soldiers to surround their base and refuse to permit Afghans to enter. Later, French Prime Minister Sarkosy announced that France would withdraw earlier than scheduled from Afghanistan -- at the end of 2013, not the end of 2014. According to a February 12 BBC account, the French left Kapisa province altogether after the attack in what was billed as a "temporary" withdrawal. I haven't found any reports on their return.

Schnetterle's death in a Paris hospital brings the grim toll of that January attack to five killed. Overall, it brings my unofficial grim toll to 66 since November 2009 --what  General Dempsey calls "additional risk."