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Afghan Army Commander Killed In Insider Attack
[ToloNews] Commander of the Third Regiment of the Afghan National Army in the central province of Ghazni, Colonel Abdul Mubin Mujtaba, was killed in an attack by two Army soldiers, affiliated to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men..., in Qarabagh district of the province on Wednesday afternoon, a front man for Ministry of Defense Fawad Aman said. Aman said that Colonel Mujtaba and other security officials were assessing the security situation of checkpoints along the Ghazni-Kandahar Highway when he came under attack by the suspected army soldiers. One of the attackers was killed and another was maimed, Aman said. President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... in a statement condemned the attack and said "terrorists" cannot weaken the morale of the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces by such heinous attacks.
Resolute Support, the U.S.-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... mission in Afghanistan, said no U.S. or coalition troops had been killed or maimed, but declined to comment further. According to Amanullah Kamrani, a member of the Ghazni provincial council, Mateen was boarding a helicopter after a meeting with U.S. advisers when he was attacked. "The attacker was killed when Americans returned fire," Kamrani told AFP. Insider attacks, sometimes referred to as "green on green," are a constant threat in Afghanistan. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-07-18 |
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