After an individual in Afghan military uniform shot dead a U.S. major general, and injured 14 other coalition soldiers, is more violence in the region a possibility? WSJs Nathan Hodge reports on the News Hub with Sara Murray. KABUL—An Afghan soldier killed a two-star U.S. Army general when he opened fire on a group of Western military officers Tuesday, officials said, claiming the highest-ranking American casualty in more than a decade of war and resurrecting concerns about the U.S. exit strategy from Afghanistan. The attacker, armed with a machine gun and wearing an Afghan army uniform, surprised the visiting group of Western military officials and fired dozens of rounds before being killed on the grounds of the Afghan army officers school, U.S. officials said. The attack took the life of Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, 52 years old, an Army officer who had recently returned to Afghanistan to serve as deputy commander of the coalition transition force responsible for training and equipping Afghan troops, making him the highest-ranking military officer killed since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, U.S. officials said. The shooter wounded at least 17 other people, including a German brigadier general and Gen. Ghulam Sakhi, the Afghan officer running the university, military officials said. The German military said the brigadier generals wounds werent life threatening.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:10:11 +0000
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