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September 27, 2011, Tuesday
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AN Afghan employed by the United States government killed one American and wounded another in an attack on a Central Intelligence Agency office in Kabul, officials said yesterday.
The shooting on Sunday evening is the most recent in a growing number of attacks this year by Afghans working with the country's international allies. Some assailants have turned out to be Taliban sleeper agents, while others have been motivated by personal grievances.
Gunfire was first heard sometime after 8pm local time around the former Ariana Hotel, a building that ex-US intelligence officials said is the CIA station in Kabul. The spy agency occupied the heavily secured building just blocks from the Afghan presidential palace in late 2001 after the US-led invasion that toppled the Taliban.
The US Embassy said an Afghan employee of the complex shot dead an American citizen and wounded another before being killed. "The motivation for the attack is still under investigation," the embassy said in a statement.
Embassy spokesman Gavin Sundwall declined to comment on what the targeted annex was used for, citing security reasons.
The embassy did not provide information on the American killed, and said the person wounded in the shooting was taken to a military hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. It said the embassy has "resumed business operations."
The attack came less than two weeks after militants fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the US Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in Kabul, killing seven Afghans. No embassy or NATO staff members were hurt in the 20-hour assault. But it plunged US-Pakistan relations to new lows as American officials accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency of supporting insurgents in planning and executing the September 13 attack.
Sunday's assault also follows closely on last week's assassination of former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading a government effort to broker peace with the Taliban. He was killed when an insurgent who had claimed to be a peace emissary exploded a bomb hidden in his turban upon meeting Rabbani.
NATO bases and embassies have ramped up security following a number of attacks over the past year by Afghan forces against their counterparts. Since March 2009, the coalition has recorded at least 20 incidents where a member of the Afghan security forces or someone wearing their uniform killed coalition forces. Thirty-six coalition troops have died. It is not known how many of the 282,000 members of the Afghan security forces were killed.
The shooting on Sunday evening is the most recent in a growing number of attacks this year by Afghans working with the country's international allies. Some assailants have turned out to be Taliban sleeper agents, while others have been motivated by personal grievances.
Gunfire was first heard sometime after 8pm local time around the former Ariana Hotel, a building that ex-US intelligence officials said is the CIA station in Kabul. The spy agency occupied the heavily secured building just blocks from the Afghan presidential palace in late 2001 after the US-led invasion that toppled the Taliban.
The US Embassy said an Afghan employee of the complex shot dead an American citizen and wounded another before being killed. "The motivation for the attack is still under investigation," the embassy said in a statement.
Embassy spokesman Gavin Sundwall declined to comment on what the targeted annex was used for, citing security reasons.
The embassy did not provide information on the American killed, and said the person wounded in the shooting was taken to a military hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. It said the embassy has "resumed business operations."
The attack came less than two weeks after militants fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the US Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in Kabul, killing seven Afghans. No embassy or NATO staff members were hurt in the 20-hour assault. But it plunged US-Pakistan relations to new lows as American officials accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency of supporting insurgents in planning and executing the September 13 attack.
Sunday's assault also follows closely on last week's assassination of former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading a government effort to broker peace with the Taliban. He was killed when an insurgent who had claimed to be a peace emissary exploded a bomb hidden in his turban upon meeting Rabbani.
NATO bases and embassies have ramped up security following a number of attacks over the past year by Afghan forces against their counterparts. Since March 2009, the coalition has recorded at least 20 incidents where a member of the Afghan security forces or someone wearing their uniform killed coalition forces. Thirty-six coalition troops have died. It is not known how many of the 282,000 members of the Afghan security forces were killed.
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