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US Major General Killed by an Afghan soldier.

unusual silence in the western media over this given that this is the most senior casualty in the US army since the Vietnam war

Yes I am also surprised at total black out of this news in western media news channels or websites, don't really know the reason to not highlight the killing of such high profile US military official by one of the soldiers in Afghan national army (ANA).

It is headline news all over.

I don't see any news related to this incident in any german media which never misses any small negative incident taking place in paksitan or afghanistan.
 
unusual silence in the western media over this given that this is the most senior casualty in the US army since the Vietnam war
probably they dont want to let their people's moral down and also trying to hide their defeat in afghanistan
 
Yes I am also surprised at total black out of this news in western media news channels or websites, don't really know the reason to not highlight the killing of such high profile US military official by one of the soldiers in Afghan national army (ANA).



I don't see any news related to this incident in any german media which never misses any small negative incident taking place in paksitan or afghanistan.

It is all over just about every news and media outlet.
 
It is all over just about every news and media outlet.

do this , go to

sky news <- headline is about Scottish Independence

bbc news <- first headline is about Gaza truce , then about the US General

foxnews <-- headline is about border agent murder suspects , then about the US General

CNN <-- headline news in CNN but the Ebola virus news is more prominent

So its there but not being put out as the main news headline

Far cry from the past drumbeats of 'Mission Accomplished' and 'Shock and Awe' , would you not agree ?
 
do this , go to

sky news <- headline is about Scottish Independence

bbc news <- first headline is about Gaza truce , then about the US General

foxnews <-- headline is about border agent murder suspects , then about the US General

CNN <-- headline news in CNN but the Ebola virus news is more prominent

So its there but not being put out as the main news headline

Far cry from the past drumbeats of 'Mission Accomplished' and 'Shock and Awe' , would you not agree ?

It is headline news in just about every major news media outlet. There is no blackout as you seem to be claiming.

USA is not the whole world Gen. Cheng

I am including international media, and yes, it is headline news there too.
 
US must do one final troop surge into border towns to wipe out all Taliban. This time they will have nowhere to hide as Pak border is sealed, sandwich the f**kers. Hopefully dead Fazullah at the end so its win win for all.
Hahahaha genius that will fail too Taliban pretty much control most off Afghanistan they are in whole Afghanistan
 
Afghan soldier kills US general in attack on military academy outside Kabul
American Maj Gen Harold Greene is highest-ranking American casualty of 13-year war
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Major General Harold Greene, who was killed by an Aghan soldier at a military academy outside Kabul. Photograph: US ARMY / HANDOUT/EPA

An Afghan soldier opened fire at a British-run military academy outside Kabul on Tuesday, killing a US major general and wounding at least 15 other troops including a German brigadier general.

The US two-star general was identified by a US official to the Associated Press as Maj Gen Harold Greene, who becomes the highest-ranking American officer killed in nearly 13 years of war in Afghanistan. The Pentagon's press secretary said he believed the officer was the highest ranking US military casualty since 9/11.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with Maj Gen Harold J Greene's family, and the families of our soldiers who were injured today in the tragic events that took place in Afghanistan. These soldiers were professionals, committed to the mission. It is their service and sacrifice that define us as an Army," said General Ray Odierno, the chief of staff of the US army

Early reports of the incident were fragmentary. A terse initial statement from NATO's command in Afghanistan, known as the International Security Assistance Force or Isaf, said that an "incident" at the Qargha academy, also known the Marshal Fahim National Defense University, killed an Isaf service member.

Afghan defence ministry spokesperson Zahir Azami said that a soldier wearing an Afghan national army uniform opened fire on a group of international and Afghan soldiers, killing one and wounding an unspecified number of others.

A US official told the Associated Press that "about a dozen" American troops were wounded. The assailant was killed, although it is not clear whether a US or Afghan soldier killed him.

The New York Times first identified the rank of the dead officer. The Pentagon press secretary, Rear Adm John Kirby, would only confirm that a "general officer" had been killed.

"It's a terrible day, a terrible tragedy," Kirby said.

Germany's military said 15 Nato soldiers were wounded, in an assault launched "probably by internal attackers". Kirby said the daylight incident occurred during a "routine site visit" by US officers. The wounded included a German brigadier general, who the German military said was receiving medical treatment and was "not in a life-threatening condition."

The Ministry of Defence in London said it was investigating. "We are aware of reports of an incident at Qargha. The incident is under investigation and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time," a spokesman said.

General Mohammed Afzal Aman, the chief of staff for operations at the Afghan defence ministry, said it was also investigating the reports.

"We are investigating, but it appears that an Afghan army officer opened fire. Three of our officers have been injured, some [Nato] troops have also suffered casualties."

The killing, known in Pentagon and Isaf parlance as a "green on blue" – for a sponsored force turning on its – represents a return to a vexing and wrenching problem faced by international forces in recent years.

By 2012, assaults from Afghan forces had become one of the greatest dangers to US and allied troops in Afghanistan, rivalling homemade bombs, and military leaders said they were unsure about what was driving the attacks. The Long Warr Journal website chronicled 44 green-on-blue attacks that year.

Better screening and more thorough monitoring of Afghan recruits, coupled with senior-level attention, has typically been cited as a cause for a sharp drop in 2013 and 2014, which have seen 15 such attacks. The bloody day in Kabul is the first such attack since February, and it occurs amid persistent uncertainty surrounding an Afghan presidential election that will determine the future of the US and allied troop presence after this year.

"The insider threat is a pernicious threat," Kirby said, but he dismissed concerns it would undermine US-Afghan cooperation.

"The Afghan national security forces continue to perform at a very strong level of competence and competence and warfare capability," Kirby said.

The officers' training academy, dubbed "Sandhurst in the sand", took its first cadets last October, and will be the only remaining British military presence in the country after operations end this year.

General and flag officers rarely die in combat zones, often a function of their placement in planning areas outside of the fiercest fighting. Even in the unconventional recent counterinsurgency conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, where battle fronts and rear areas can arise and change places with each embedded bomb, that pattern has held.

In 2010, a suicide bomber assaulted a Kabul minibus convoy, killing four US and Canadian colonels and lieutenant colonels. A 2008 mortar attack on the secured Green Zone in Iraq made the US army's Stephen Scott, who died while exercising on a treadmill, the ninth US colonel killed in that conflict.

Agencies in Kabul and London contributed to this report
 
He was Major General Harold Greene , United States Army.

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Rest In Peace, General...
 
I remember the west mocking when Maj Gen Niazi was martyred in an IED blast... i wonder how would they feel if we did the same? but as a sane people.. WE shouldnt folow them... we are better... so RIP general..
 
I remember the west mocking when Maj Gen Niazi was martyred in an IED blast... i wonder how would they feel if we did the same? but as a sane people.. WE shouldnt folow them... we are better... so RIP general..

What did "the west" say then? Who do you mean by "the west"?
 

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