American Major General Reported Killed in Afghanistan
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG and HARIS KAKAR AUG. 5, 2014
KABUL, Afghanistan â A United States Army major general was killed on Tuesday by an Afghan soldier, shot at close range at a military training academy on the outskirts of Kabul, an official of the American-led coalition and Afghan media reported Tuesday. The officer was the highest-ranking member of the American military to die in hostilities in the Afghanistan war.
Tuesdayâs shooting was the first so-called insider attack in Afghanistan in months. Such attacks, in which Afghan troops open fire on unsuspecting coalition forces, at one point posed a serious challenge to the war effort, sowing distrust and threatening to upend the American-led training mission that is vital to the long-term strategy for keeping the Taliban at bay.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/world/asia/afghanistan-attack.html
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG and HARIS KAKAR AUG. 5, 2014
KABUL, Afghanistan â A United States Army major general was killed on Tuesday by an Afghan soldier, shot at close range at a military training academy on the outskirts of Kabul, an official of the American-led coalition and Afghan media reported Tuesday. The officer was the highest-ranking member of the American military to die in hostilities in the Afghanistan war.
Tuesdayâs shooting was the first so-called insider attack in Afghanistan in months. Such attacks, in which Afghan troops open fire on unsuspecting coalition forces, at one point posed a serious challenge to the war effort, sowing distrust and threatening to upend the American-led training mission that is vital to the long-term strategy for keeping the Taliban at bay.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/world/asia/afghanistan-attack.html
