{"id":82418,"date":"2018-10-20T07:18:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T11:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82418"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:05","slug":"top-us-commander-in-afghanistan-unharmed-after-attack-leaves-key-afghan-general-dead-2-americans-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82418","title":{"rendered":"Top US commander in Afghanistan unharmed after attack leaves key Afghan general dead, 2 Americans wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/10\/18\/top-us-commander-in-afghanistan-unharmed-after-attack-that-left-key-afghan-general-dead-2-americans-wounded\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/FFSH67UALRDKNKJQTTTJMOZNCA.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The top U.S. general in Afghanistan was present during an attack Thursday that wounded two U.S. troops and killed an Afghan general who was key to holding together the many disparate political groups and security forces in southern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">The four-star U.S. general who leads the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/05\/18\/report-after-failed-afghanistan-assault-taliban-promise-to-target-only-us-forces-from-now-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NATO mission to Afghanistan<\/a>\u00a0was present during an attack Thursday that wounded two Americans and killed an Afghan general who was key to holding together the many disparate political groups and security forces in the country\u2019s south.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Army Gen. Scott Miller, Resolute Support commander, was present at a routine meeting with regional leaders in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2017\/08\/02\/nato-convoy-attacked-in-kandahar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kandahar, Afghanistan,\u00a0<\/a>when what appears to be an insider attack occurred. Kandahar police chief Gen. Abdul Raziq, a critical part of Afghanistan\u2019s security, was targeted in the attack and killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">\u201cToday I lost a great friend Lt. Gen. Raziq,&#8221; Miller said via Twitter. &#8220;We had served together for many years. Afghanistan lost a patriot, my condolences to the people of Afghanistan. The good he did for Afghanistan and the Afghan people cannot be undone.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Col. Knut Peters, a Resolute Support spokesman, told Military Times the incident took place at Kandahar Palace and was an &#8220;Afghan-on-Afghan incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">\u201cTwo Americans were wounded in the cross-fire and they have been medically evacuated,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/10\/18\/top-us-commander-in-afghanistan-unharmed-after-attack-that-left-key-afghan-general-dead-2-americans-wounded\/\">Top US commander in Afghanistan unharmed after attack leaves key Afghan general dead, 2 Americans wounded<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top U.S. general in Afghanistan was present during an attack Thursday that wounded two U.S. &hellip; <a title=\"Top US commander in Afghanistan unharmed after attack leaves key Afghan general dead, 2 Americans wounded\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82418\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top US commander in Afghanistan unharmed after attack leaves key Afghan general dead, 2 Americans wounded<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":82419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}