http://m.aljazeera.com/se/201485181855581790The general, whom the Pentagon declined to name, is
the highest-ranking US Army officer to be killed in
the Afghan war.
An American general was killed in an apparent
insider attack by a member of the Afghan security
forces, a Pentagon spokesman said, the highest-
ranking US Army officer to be killed in the Iraq or
Afghanistan wars.
Pentagon spokesman, Rear Admiral John Kirby, said
on Tuesday that the assailant, dressed in an Afghan
army uniform, fired into a group of international
soldiers at the Marshal Fahim National Defence
University at Camp Qargha, a base west of Kabul, and
was subsequently killed.
"Among the casualties was an American general
officer who was killed," Kirby told reporters in
Washington, declining to name the general.
No US general has been killed in combat since the
Vietnam War.
Another 15 people, roughly half of them Americans,
were wounded. Among the wounded were a German
brigadier general, two Afghan generals and an
Afghan officer, whose rank the Afghan Defence
Ministry did not provide.
The attack occurred during a site visit to the
university by coalition members.
Ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi,
said a "terrorist in an army uniform" opened fire on
both local and international troops.
President Hamid Karzai condemned Tuesday's attack
as a "cowardly" strike against Afghan and NATO
officers.
"It is the work of those enemies who do not want to
see Afghanistan have its own strong institutions," he
said.
The Taliban did not immediately claim responsibility
for the attack, and Western officials say that most
such attacks stem from personal grudges and
cultural misunderstandings rather than insurgent
plots.
The Qargha shooting comes as so-called "insider
attacks" - incidents in which Afghan security turn on
their NATO partners - largely dropped last year. In
2013, there were 16 deaths in 10 separate attacks. In
2012, such attacks killed 53 coalition troops in 38
separate attacks.
Also on Tuesday, Afghan officials accused an ISAF
(International Security Assistance Force) air strike of
killing four civilians in the western province of Herat.
"After rockets were fired at Shindand airbase, an
aircraft carried out strikes on the area where they
were launched," Herat's deputy governor Asiludin
Jami told AFP.
"A man, a woman, a kid and a teenager were killed.
They were all civilians." ISAF said it took all
allegations of civilian casualties seriously, and was
assessing the facts surrounding Monday's incident.
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Obama get out of that God forsaken place. They are worthless to humanity. Let them ravage themselves. To protect the homeland stop all Muslim immigration and start repatriation. Not worth an American life that hell hole.

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