U.S. General Killed in Afghan Attack
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US general assassinated in 'green-on-blue' shooting at Afghan army training baseA man in an Afghan Army uniform opened fire Tuesday at a military base, killing a U.S. general officer and wounding 15 people, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops
Pentagon spokesman, Rear Adm. John Kirby, said that the assailant fired into a group of international soldiers at the Marshal Fahim National Defense University at Camp Qargha, a base west of Kabul, and was subsequently killed.
Another 15 people, roughly half of them Americans, were wounded. Among the wounded were a German brigadier general, two...
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U.S. General Killed in Afghanistan AttackAn individual wearing an Afghan military uniform gunned down a U.S. Army major-general Tuesday—the highest-ranking American casualty since the war began—and injured 14 other coalition troops visiting the Afghan army's officer school, U.S. officials said.
U.S. officials said initial evidence indicated the attacker was an Afghan soldier and not an outside insurgent wearing an Afghan military uniform. Afghan police and soldiers have frequently opened fire on coalition troops, but Tuesday's attack was unprecedented in terms of how high-ranking the casualties were. Pentagon officials said the general was believed to be...
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U.S. General Is Killed in Attack at Afghan Base, Officials SayAn Afghan soldier shot a United States Army major general to death and wounded a German brigadier general and at least 14 other foreign and Afghan military service members on Tuesday at a military training academy on the outskirts of Kabul, officials of the American-led coalition said Tuesday. The major general appeared to be the highest-ranking member of the American military to die in hostilities overseas since the Vietnam War.
The coalition officials said a senior Afghan commander also was among the wounded. The officials declined to identify any of...