U.S. General Is Reportedly Killed by an Afghan Soldier

The New York Times ^ | Tuesday, August 5, 2014 | Matthew Rosenberg and Haris Kakar

[kristinn]

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.

The coalition official, who spoke on condition of anonymity and would not release the name of the major general, said an unspecified number of other service members of the American-led coalition and Afghan soldiers, including a senior Afghan commander were also shot. Their conditions were not known.

Other details of the shooting were sketchy, and the coalition official would only confirm that “an incident” had taken place at the Afghan National Army Officer Academy.

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The Taliban, which often takes credit for insider attacks, had no immediate comment on Tuesday. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the insurgents, said he was still trying to collect information about the incident.

But, he added, the Taliban had many people inside the camp, and that one of their loyalists could have been responsible for the attack.

[Fishtalk]

Thank you cousin Mike.

I shall use your data in an upcoming blog post of mine.

[devolve]

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- update:

- B. Hussein Ebola Junior skipped this and promised to give $28,000,000,000 of your hard-earned tax dollars to Afreaka to boost their economy and encourage trade with the Freakin technical miracles.

- Look what Prezzy Hussein Ebola Junior has done for NASA and the missiles he is planning to give to HAMAS.

- Anyone wanna buy a friendly little Green Monkey that is alleged to be healthy and free of deadly diseases of the sexual kind or a lovely handmade spear? Best Offers may be accepted on PlayBay today….

[ek_hornbeck]

If the general was in fact from Germany, I'm sure jug-eared ass clown's minions will prepare a lengthy heartfelt message offering "his sincerest condolences" to his family and country. If it was in fact an American general... not a word.

I can't picture Obama mustering much sympathy for a German general either. Now if the General were from Nigeria or Liberia, different story.

[kabar]

To protect our interests and prevent the Taliban from taking back the country and setting up a sanctuary country for AQ.

[TurboZamboni]

We can’t even do a good job of educating kids here, let alone some tribal war zone.

[Quickgun]

Worded wrong, if General had been murdered a couple of days ago, justice would have been meted out by today. Not 70 years later...LOL

[MaggiesPitchfork]

I’m sure “no one is angrier than Obama” over this! Then there will be a joke at a fundraiser about a corpse man.

[DoodleDawg]

To protect our interests and prevent the Taliban from taking back the country and setting up a sanctuary country for AQ.

And how are they supposed to do that in a country where the people do not support the corrupt government and you can't trust the local military and police enough to work with them?

[kabar]

The newly elected government of Afghanistan wants us to stay. We need a residual force that can support the government to stand up an effective military and have sufficient force protection to ensure that our people will be safe.

We have lost 39 US dead (13 non-hostile and 6 friendly fire)this year in Afghanistan plus 17 other coalition members. As terrible as the recent incident is, we need to place it in context. We should do what is in our best national interests. We have been working with the military and the local police. Green on blue attacks are unacceptable, but are they large enough for us to throw in towel? What is the threshold?

Our failure to negotiate a SOFA in Iraq has led to the current condition today. We now have about 400 advisers on the ground there trying to combat the spread of ISIL. If ISIL were to topple the government in Iraq, the impact on the entire region would be thrown into chaos. This will have an impact on oil production and the spread of militant Islamic fundamentalism. The global economy will suffer at a time when Europe and the US have still not recovered from the Great Recession and China is having its own economic problems including a real estate bubble. And Russia may be on the verge of invading Eastern Ukraine.

We can not take the head in the sand Obama approach to foreign policy. Obama has failed to lead and the vacuum will be filled by our enemies.

[FlyingEagle]

OBAMA: Here’s what happened. ... You had a video that was released by somebody who lives here, sort of a shadowy character who — who made an extremely offensive video directed at — at Mohammed and Islam —

[DoodleDawg]

The newly elected government of Afghanistan wants us to stay. We need a residual force that can support the government to stand up an effective military and have sufficient force protection to ensure that our people will be safe.

An effective military like the one who shot our general and 14 other people?

[devolve]

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- B. Hussein Ebola Junior was playing golf - and unable to comment

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[kabar]

>An effective military like the one who shot our general and 14 other people?

If that is enough to drive us out of Afghanistan, then stick a fork in us, we are done.

[Rodamala]

Let the leader of the free world, Benjamin Netanyahu, deal with Iran... they are getting plenty of practice with the implementation portion of an effective Muslim diplomacy plan... in Gaza.

We ought to call it the Home Depot Strategy... "You can do it. We can help".

[FlyingEagle]

It is astonishing that a General is murdered at a military training school in Afghanistan and the President says nothing. Here is what CNN says:

“President Obama was briefed about the shooting and called Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, to get more information”

This story is no more believable than the slaughter of the US ambassador in Libya.

I have been in embassies all over the world and nobody gets anywhere close to an ambassador with weapons, much less in a muslim country, on 9/11.

I am not familiar with military protocol in Afghanistan, but I have trouble imagining that a taliban terrorist can access a US Army General with a loaded weapon unless it is a set-up like Benghazi. Like the Seal team 6 helicopter crash must be. Like the destruction of 6 Harriers and a C-130 in Sept 2012.

Near as I can tell, the US military forces in Afghanistan are really only there as targets for the islamists, while dark forces siphon the protection-racket cash flow stream from the Karzai family controlled opium/heroin trade. There is no clear military mission there that protects US interests at all.

Prayers up for the dead General and his family and the other brave wounded.

[dfwgator]

It is astonishing that a General is murdered at a military training school in Afghanistan and the President says nothing.

He only cares when a thug like Trayvon gets his comeuppance.

[castlebrew]

From Jim Miklszewski, et al.,at NBC: American Two-Star Major Gen. Harold Greene Killed at Afghanistan Military Academy

Here's the pull quote:

"Retired U.S. Army Col. Jack Jacobs said these attacks usually stem from troops being disgruntled about assignments or their pay — and not because they were "planted" by the enemy."

With all due respect to the good Colonel, these events are NOT "workplace violence - disgruntled employee" situations.

I was in the NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan (NTM-A) in 2011, stationed in Kabul. We had several 'green-on-blue' incidents - such as at the airport. These guys are primarily (a) believers and infiltrators, or (b) doing this because the bad guys are threatening them or their family members - in other words, "plants by the enemy". "Pay/assignments" is pretty far down the list, no matter what the ones taken alive would tell you.

[castlebrew]

dittos on all counts.

[X Fretensis]

Which General was killed in Viet Nam?

[from occupied ga]

Sorry you’ve apparently had bad experiences with colonels in the past.

What aspersions. Are you telling me that no one is looking for his job?

I had a retired USAF colonel working for me a number of uears ago. One of the least productive employees I ever had. He would sneak naps when he was supposed to be working. Always turned in his stuff late, and rarely did a very good job of what he did turn in, but HR wouldn't let me fire him because of his age - They had apparently been burned by age related law suits sufficiently so that you practically had to set fire to the building to get fired.