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3 Americans wounded, top general escapes harm in deadly shooting at governor's mansion in Afghanistan
By Lucas Tomlinson | Fox News
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The top U.S. general in Afghanistan somehow escaped unscathed from a bloody "insider attack" in the country Thursday that claimed the lives of three important local leaders and wounded a trio of Americans who had gathered for a high-level meeting at the Kandahar Province governor's mansion.

Officials said Army Gen. Scott Miller, the top U.S. general in the war-torn country, had been at the meeting but was unharmed, U.S. officials said. It was not immediately clear if Miller was in the room when the shooting began, with some local media reporting the general had left only minutes before.

Kandahar deputy provincial governor Agha Lala Dastageri said powerful provincial police chief Abdul Razik -- a longtime and key U.S. ally -- and provincial intelligence chief Abdul Mohmin were killed immediately, and provincial governor Zalmay Wesa later died of his injuries at a hospital.

The shooter in the Taliban-claimed “insider attack," was also killed, one U.S. official said. The assailant was reportedly one of the governor's bodyguards.

Of the three Americans who were wounded, one was a civilian and one was a member of the military. U.S. officials declined to provide further details identifying the victims.

"This was an Afghan-on-Afghan incident. Three Americans were wounded, have been medically evacuated and are stable. General Miller is uninjured. We are being told the area is secure," a spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan tweeted.

Raziq, a powerful force in the country who had eluded countless assassination attempts, was reportedly killed as he departed the meeting.

“A dark say! Shocked & heartbroken by the demise of close friend, great patriot & national hero Gen Abdul Raziq who single-handedly restored stability to to (sic) a volatile Kandahar and the greater south – May he rest in eternal peace!” tweeted Omar Zakhiwal, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Pakistan.

The attack comes two days before Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections Saturday.

Kandahar is one of the most volatile provinces in Afghanistan. It's the spiritual home of the Taliban and is where the Islamist group held its first organizational meetings in the 1990s.

There are currently 15,000 U.S. troops serving in the country. Seven soldiers have been killed in action this year.

Note: The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Wiped Out: Taliban Kill Kandahar's Governor, Police Chief, and Intelligence Chief In Attack Targeting Top U.S. Commander
By: Matt Vespa Matt Vespa | @mvespa1 |Posted: Oct 18, 2018 11:00 AM
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Afghanistan is a mess, and today’s headlines only highlighted this further. In Kandahar, the police chief, governor, and intelligence chief have been killed. Earlier reports said that their bodyguards turned on them, but The Washington Postreported that a Taliban terrorist donning an Afghan army uniform opened fire inside the governor’s compound. This was a very close call for our officials as well. Three Americans were wounded and the top U.S commander, Gen. Austin “Scott” Miller, was present but escaped unharmed. He was reportedly the target of the attack. The Afghan police chief, Abdul Raziq, was considered one of the most powerful men in southern Afghanistan, who was also a staunch U.S. ally and anti-Taliban (via WaPo):

A gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire Thursday on participants in a meeting with the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, killing three top southern provincial officials and wounding at least three Americans, officials said. But Gen. Austin “Scott” Miller, the target of the attack claimed by the Taliban, escaped unharmed, they said.

Among those reported killed in the attack inside the governor’s compound in southern Kandahar province were the country’s top police general, Abdul Raziq, who was seen as the most powerful man in southern Afghanistan.

U.S. military officials confirmed that a U.S. soldier, a contractor and another civilian were wounded in the attack, which occurred shortly after a high-level meeting attended by Miller.

Initial accounts said the three senior Afghan officials were wounded in the shooting in Kandahar.

Our ventures in this part of the world haven’t panned out. We dropped the ball here to invade Iraq in 2003. On both fronts, mishaps and miscalculations, especially on notion of whether democratic ideals could take hold in a part of the world where this is an alien concept historically, along with the American public’s impatience, only compounded matters. We’ve wasted trillions in these ventures, along with thousands of American lives. Things have not died down or gotten better it would seem. The security and governing structure in southern Afghanistan just got wiped out.
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