UN Official May Have Been (Deliberately) Shot by Afghan Police

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Source: The Scotsman

UNITED Nations officials yesterday said a UN guard killed in a Taleban attack on a guest-house in Kabul last year was probably deliberately shot by Afghan police, not by a militant as originally thought.

If the Afghan police are accused of deliberately killing a UN official, it could further damage Afghan President Hamid Karzai's already strained relations with western powers, whose troops have been battling the Taleban for nine years.

Louis Maxwell, a UN security officer from the US, was killed in a 28 October attack on an international guest house where he was with other UN employees working on a planned presidential run-off election that never took place.

more: http://news.scotsman.com/world/UN-official-may-have-been.6235042.jp

Report of Maxwell's killing: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8961160