Video clips of a former Afghan Army soldier emerged this week, containing his admission of attacking members of the coalition forces serving in Afghanistan last year.

ABC indentified the man on the video, posted this week on a jihadist website, as Muhammed Rozi, who claimed that he shot at Australian soldiers acting as trainers for the Afghan National Army.

Basing on his videotaped interview, Rozi claimed that he perpetrated the attack on Aussie diggers stationed in Uruzgan in November 2011.

Australian defence officials recalled that no fatalities were recorded during that attack, which was blamed on a member of the Afghan Army who had gone rogue, but at least three soldiers were listed then as critically wounded.

Rozi's interview suggested that the attack was premeditated but he claimed that he acted alone and was under orders by any insurgent groups operating the province, where the Australian troops have been focusing their mission.

Rozi told his interviewer that his attack was meant to convey a clear message: that the presence of foreign soldiers in Afghanistan was not acceptable to Muslims.

Prior to the November assault, at least four Aussie diggers have been killed by Afghan Army recruits that were either infiltrators deployed by the Talibans or lone-wolves motivated by fanatical persuasions.

Soldiers from the United States, France, Germany and Italy also became victims of such attacks, prompting coalition members to mull pulling out their troops much earlier that the planned exit on 2014.

U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta had earlier hinted that America may withdraw its forces earlier than planned, likely by the latter part of 2013.

Panetta's statement sparked speculations that Australia may follow the U.S. lead, with Defence Minister Stephen Smith suggesting too that a 2013 departure from the war-torn country was a serious consideration.

Smith issued his remarks as Australians grew weary of the near 10-year old war that has so far killed 33 Diggers.

Public support for the Afghan War was further eroded as attacks coming from Afghan Army recruits increased in the past few years, claiming the lives of coalition troops, including that of Australian soldiers.

Rozi was the first to provide a face on this spate of attacks but Afghan security forces have yet to track him down though security experts believe that rogues like him were likely hiding in the Afghan-Pakistani border region, where governments of the two countries were hardly recognised.