US General Harold J. Greene killed in Afghanistan green on blue attack
- 9 years ago
An American general was killed and more than a dozen other soldiers were injured during an insider attack at a British-run military academy near Kabul on Tuesday.
The slain senior U.S. soldier has been identified as Harold J. Greene, a U.S. Army two-star major general. Quoting an unnamed Afghan official, Reuters reported that 14 other soldiers were wounded in the shooting: seven of them belong to the U.S. Army; five are British soldiers; and one is a German brigadier general.
The assault took place on Tuesday afternoon after an Afghan soldier became embroiled in an argument with some other Afghans, the BBC reported. The man went on to open fire on international troops from a guard post with either an M-16 assault rifle or a light machine gun.
Greene is the highest ranking U.S. Army officer to be killed in either the Iraq or Afghanistan wars, and possibly the most senior since the Vietnam War, says the New York Times.
The motive of the attack remains unclear and the Taliban has already denied involvement. However, in an emailed statement, a Taliban spokesman praised the attacker as an “Afghan hero soldier who turned his weapon against foreign invaders.”
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The slain senior U.S. soldier has been identified as Harold J. Greene, a U.S. Army two-star major general. Quoting an unnamed Afghan official, Reuters reported that 14 other soldiers were wounded in the shooting: seven of them belong to the U.S. Army; five are British soldiers; and one is a German brigadier general.
The assault took place on Tuesday afternoon after an Afghan soldier became embroiled in an argument with some other Afghans, the BBC reported. The man went on to open fire on international troops from a guard post with either an M-16 assault rifle or a light machine gun.
Greene is the highest ranking U.S. Army officer to be killed in either the Iraq or Afghanistan wars, and possibly the most senior since the Vietnam War, says the New York Times.
The motive of the attack remains unclear and the Taliban has already denied involvement. However, in an emailed statement, a Taliban spokesman praised the attacker as an “Afghan hero soldier who turned his weapon against foreign invaders.”
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