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CIA officer killed in Afghanistan
Jang A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer has been killed and two wounded in a grenade accident during a live-fire exercise in Afghanistan, the spy agency said on Thursday. Helge Boes, 32, from the agency's Counter-terrorist Center, was killed in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday "when a grenade detonated prematurely," the CIA said in a statement. One agency employee was seriously wounded but was in stable condition, a CIA spokesman said. The other received relatively minor injuries and both were expected to recover, he said. Boes, who was training for a mission when he died, was the second CIA fatality in Afghanistan since the US launched a war aimed at ousting the Taliban. Considering the amount of ammunition that's been fired off in Afghanistan in the past 18 months, that's actually a pretty good record. RIP, Helge. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-02-08 |
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