U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick Runge provides security while other troops speak to the owner of a dairy farm in the Noorgul district in Afghanistan's Kunar province, Oct. 1, 2012. Runge is assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team Kunar. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Marasky
“Insider Killings” Reach Into Afghanistan’s Intelligence Service -- Ottawa Citizen
The “insider killings” in Afghanistan continue but one item that didn’t seem to get much attention caught my eye. Last week an officer with the Central Intelligence Agency was killed in Kandahar province in a suicide bombing.
The attack, which was carried out in a remote area of the province, occurred when a guard working for the Afghan intelligence service – the NDS -detonated a suicide vest as a delegation of American coalition members and Afghan intelligence officials arrived at the intelligence office in the Maruf District, the NY Times reported. It was surprising that the NDS – which has a reputation of being very thorough in vetting its personnel – was able to be infiltrated.
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