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U.S. Troops Shot During Deadly Attack in Afghanistan: Officials
By Jim Miklaszewski, Fazul Rahim and Alexander Smith

KABUL, Afghanistan - As many as 12 Western soldiers -- including several Americans -- were shot in a deadly attack on high-level officials visiting a military academy Tuesday near Afghanistan's capital.

U.S. officials told NBC News that most, if not all, of the victims were American. They said a lone gunman opened fire at a group that included American officials at the Camp Qargha training facility.

One high-ranking U.S. service member was killed and more than a dozen Western troops were wounded, according to senior U.S. defense officials. The officials said the death toll is expected to rise given the severity of troops’ injuries.

The officials earlier had told NBC News that the three Western troops had died but later revised the figure. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy, however, death tolls often change in the confusing aftermath of such attacks.

Earlier, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force confirmed "fatalities" after "a shooting incident involving ISAF and Afghan troops," but could not confirm the number of victims or their nationalities.

Gen. Mohammmad Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for Afghanistan's Defense Ministry, tweeted in Dari that the gunman was wearing an Afghan military uniform and was shot dead after opening fire on Afghan and international colleagues.

Germany's military said in a statement that 15 troops had been wounded in the attack, including a German brigadier general, according to The Associated Press. Those details could not immediately be independently confirmed by NBC News.

The shooting broke out at Camp Qargha, which is located west of Kabul. The camp includes the National Military Academy of Afghanistan, which was reconstructed after the 2001 invasion and whose design is based on West Point.

Qargha, which is overseen by the British military, is sometimes called "Sandhurst in the sand" - a reference to the British military's own officers' training school.

Training Afghanistan's 350,000 strong security forces is a large part of the current NATO-led operation, especially as the U.S.-led coalition prepares to hand over combat operations by the end of 2014.

An Afghan intelligence source told NBC News that a high-level ISAF delegation was visiting and touring the academy when the shooter opened fire from a window. Two senior Afghan officers also were injured in the attack, the source added, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The U.K. Ministry of Defense said Wednesday that it was aware of reports and that the incident is under investigation.

“It would be inappropriate to comment further at this time,” it added.
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Re: U.S. Troops Shot During Deadly Attack in Afghanistan: Officials
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2014, 02:14:53 pm »
Fox reporting 16 Americans shot..so far 1 dead
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Re: U.S. Troops Shot During Deadly Attack in Afghanistan: Officials
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2014, 02:38:30 pm »
http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=1

SPECIAL REPORT: US TWO-STAR GENERAL KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN ATTACK, US OFFICIAL SAYS
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Re: U.S. Troops Shot During Deadly Attack in Afghanistan: Officials
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2014, 03:04:25 pm »
From the White House.....#TalibanBeNice

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« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2014, 03:15:17 pm »
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/world/asia/afghanistan-attack.html?_r=0

U.S. General Is Reportedly Killed by an Afghan Soldier
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG and HARIS KAKARAUG. 5, 2014

KABUL, Afghanistan — 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, officials of the American-led coalition said Tuesday. The officer was the highest-ranking member of the American military to die in hostilities in the Afghanistan war.

The coalition officials, 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, also were shot. Their conditions were not immediately known.

Other details of the shooting were sketchy, and the coalition, in an official statement, would only confirm that one of its service members had been killed in what it described as “an incident” at the Marshall Fahim National Defense University in Kabul. The coalition declined to specify any further details, saying it was still working to notify the family of the deceased.

Tensions at the military academy ran high in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, which took place around noon, and foreign troops appeared to be on edge, fearful of another attack.

Massoud Hossaini, a photographer for The Associated Press, said that he arrived at the camp’s gate ahead of other journalists, and just as coalition armored vehicles were pulling out of the compound. A coalition soldier manning the roof-mounted gun on one of the vehicles shouted for Mr. Hossaini to “get away,” and then fired an apparent warning shot.

“I don’t know what he fired. It was fired near our car,” he said, adding that he left the scene straight away.

The Afghan Defense Ministry said in a statement that a “few people were wounded” in the shooting, and that they had been immediately evacuated to a hospital. It described the attacker as “wearing Afghan National Army uniform,” which has long been a standard description offered after Afghan troops attack their foreign counterparts.

Other Afghan and coalition officials said they believed the shooter was an Afghan soldier. The coalition, in its brief statement, said the incident had involved “local Afghan and ISAF troops,” using the initials for the International Security Assistance Force, the formal name of the NATO-led coalition.

Sher Alam, an Afghan soldier guarding the entrance to the academy, located at Camp Qargha, said that senior Afghan and coalition officers had been meeting there on Tuesday, and that reports from inside the camp indicated that a number of the foreign officers were shot in the attack. He said that soon after the shooting, coalition helicopters landed inside the academy to evacuate the victims.

Tuesday’s shooting was the first so-called insider attack in Afghanistan in months. Such attacks, in which Afghan troops open fire on unsuspecting coalition forces, at one point posed a serious challenge to the war effort, sowing distrust and threatening to upend the American-led training mission that is vital to the long-term strategy for keeping the Taliban at bay.

Though the number of attacks has dropped sharply since 2012, when dozens occurred, they remain a persistent threat for coalition troops serving alongside Afghan forces.

Afghan and American commanders have said that they believe most of the insider attacks that have taken place were the work of ordinary soldiers who had grown alienated and angry over the continued presence of foreign troops here, and not carried out by Taliban fighters planted in Afghan units.

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.

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Re: U.S. Troops Shot During Deadly Attack in Afghanistan: Officials
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2014, 03:32:18 pm »
"Afghan and American commanders have said that they believe most of the insider attacks that have taken place were the work of ordinary soldiers who had grown alienated and angry over the continued presence of foreign troops here, and not carried out by Taliban fighters planted in Afghan units."


In other words - "workplace violence" - just the work of a damaged soldier.  Move on, nothing to see here. 
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