American 2-Star General Killed In Afghanistan Attack: Report

[Chef Ramsay]

 

(Reuters) - One serviceman was killed and 14 wounded, including a German general, when a man in Afghan army uniform opened fire on international and Afghan forces at a military training academy in Kabul on Tuesday, the German military and Afghan officials said.

ISAF, the international force in Afghanistan, said the attack took place at a British military training academy in the capital.

Germany's Der Spiegal reported that a two star U.S. general was killed in the attack. ISAF declined to comment but said one of its service members had been killed in the attack that took place at around noon.

"The wounded German general, whose life is no longer in danger, is being given medical treatment," it said.

The Afghan president was quick to condemn the attack, saying the delegation had been visiting the facility to help build Afghanistan's security forces.

Afghanistan's Defense Ministry confirmed the gunman was wearing an Afghan army uniform.

"Today at 12pm, a terrorist in army uniform opened fire on international partners and other Afghan officers, wounding several," the statement said.

Such attacks have eroded trust between the allies and complicated efforts to train Afghanistan's 350,000-strong security force.

In a similar attack on Tuesday, several were wounded in eastern Paktia province when a policeman opened fire on international and Afghan forces, police chief Zalmay Oryakhil said.

The Taliban says insider attacks reflect their ability to infiltrate the enemy, while ISAF officials say the incidents often arise over misunderstandings or altercations between troops.

In 2012, dozens of incidents forced international troops to take measures to reduce interaction with their Afghan partners and since then, the number of insider attacks has fallen sharply.

Adding to the tension, a NATO airstrike hit a vehicle carrying civilians in western Herat province, local officials said, killing four members of one family including two children.

"We strongly condemn the killings by foreign troops and we have reported this to the presidential palace," deputy provincial governor, Aseeluddin Jameh, told Reuters.

"The family was coming back from a wedding in Shindand district when they were hit."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/05/us-general-killed-afghanistan_n_5650865.html

Apparently, HuffPo can't figure out whether it was a German or American General. It was American. I'll leave out my personal opinion of this.

[Wilikon]

Can you update your thread with the US president's reaction to his own's military tragedy? Anytime he does it, no matter how small or how long it will be.

[Chef Ramsay]

You mean like this?

Obama Hasn’t Said Anything About The Killing Of American General

President Barack Obama has yet to say anything publicly about the death of Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, the first American general killed in war since Vietnam.

Greene is believed to have died Tuesday after a man in an Afghanistan military uniform shot Greene and 14 others in an attack near Kabul.

Since his death, U.S. political figures have spoken publicly about the attack.

“I’m deeply saddened by the coldblooded killing of an American hero today,” Senate majority leader Harry Reid said.

“General Greene was a good man, a great leader and a mentor to me and all who knew him,” said former Sen. Scott Brown, who knew Greene. “His death is a reminder that conditions remain very tenuous in Afghanistan, and that the Taliban has sympathizers everywhere and still poses a very real threat.”

On Tuesday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest discussed the attack, saying: “The thoughts and prayers of those of us here at the White House are with the family of the general, are with the soldiers and the family of those who were injured in this attack.”

But Obama himself has still not commented on the attack.

Citing a“national security source,” CNN’s Jake Tapper reported Wednesday that “the administration does not like to signal that the particular rank of a casualty merits a different response – every loss of life is equally tragic; every sacrifice is equally heartbreaking.”

“The source notes that President Obama has tended to go out to comment on military losses based more on when the U.S. loses a significant number of our troops – as when the helicopter was downed in the summer of 2011,” Tapper reported.

The 55-year-old Greene was serving in Afghanistan as the deputy commanding general of Combined Security Transition Command.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/06/obama-hasnt-said-anything-about-the-killing-of-american-general/

They can say what they want about losing a certain amount of troops but losing a General is a very bad sign and makes policy look fucked up even more than it did originally. Also, raises eyebrows of whomever is left of the senior military on the ground commanders that Obama hasn't relieved of their duty yet.

[Brewins]

Taleban still is strong in Afghanistan.

With such popular support, only way would be to use nazi invasion technics to kill the resistence, thing that would be suicidal and impossible.


So it is a lost war, again.