KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A U.S. official has identified the senior
officer killed in Afghanistan Tuesday as Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, the
highest-ranking American officer killed in combat since 1970.
Greene
was the deputy commanding general, Combined Security Transition
Command-Afghanistan. An engineer by training, Greene was involved in
preparing Afghan forces for the time when U.S.-coalition troops leave at
the end of this year.
Greene was killed Tuesday in one of the
bloodiest insider attacks of the long Afghanistan war when a gunman
dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops, wounding about 15
U.S. and coalition forces. They included a German general and two Afghan
generals
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