ABC News: Two-Star General Killed In Afghanistan Attack

[Purveyor]

ABC News: Two-Star General Killed In Afghanistan Attack

Tuesday, August 05, 2014
KABUL, Afghanistan --

ABC News has learned that an American two-star general was killed in an attack at a military base in Afghanistan.

This is the highest-ranking member of the U.S. military to die in hostilities in the war in Afghanistan.

According to the Associated Press, a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire Tuesday.

Details about the attack at Camp Qargha, a base west of the capital, Kabul, weren't immediately clear. Gen. Mohammmad Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for Afghanistan's Defense Ministry, said a "terrorist in an army uniform" opened fire on both local and international troops. Azimi said the shooter had been killed and that three Afghan army officers were wounded.

A U.S. official said one American soldier was killed and "about a dozen" of the wounded were Americans, but declined to comment further. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss details of the attack by name on the record.

http://6abc.com/news/abc-news-two-star-general-killed-in-afghanistan-attack/241651/

[KoKo]

1. They still didn't release his name.......

and we knew this early today.

[pinboy3niner]

2. CNN identified him as MG Harold Greene

Breaking news banner at cnn.com:

U.S. general killed in an Afghanistan attack Tuesday was Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, U.S. officials told CNN's Barbara Starr and Jim Sciutto.

http://www.cnn.com/

[Enrique]

3. Camp Qargha

the new Benghazi?