This just in: An American major general was murdered in a bloody insider attack in Afghanistan today.
The American officer was Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, a U.S. official said.
Afghanistan. The Afghan gunman who killed the American general was inside a building and fired indiscriminately from a window at the people gathered outside, the U.S. official said. There was no indication that Greene was specifically targeted, said the official who identified Greene.
At the same time there is no indication to the contrary either!
The official was not authorized to speak publicly by name about the incident and provided the information only on condition of anonymity.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, in which a gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on Americans and others Afghans at Camp Qargha.
Greene was the highest-ranked American officer killed in combat in the nation’s post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.