{"id":45101,"date":"2018-10-22T11:59:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=45101"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:59:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:59:27","slug":"us-army-general-injured-in-afghanistan-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/us-army-general-injured-in-afghanistan-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"US army general injured in Afghanistan attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington<br \/>\nA US army general was among those injured in a Taliban attack on top US and Afghan security chiefs inside a highly secure compound last week in Kandahar province, a military spokesman confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>US Army Brigadier General Jeffrey Smiley, in charge of NATO\u2019s military advisory mission in Afghanistan, suffered at least one gunshot wound in Thursday\u2019s attack, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A gunman wearing an Afghan security forces uniform opened fire on a group including General Scott Miller the top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan and powerful Afghan police chief General Abdul Raziq as they ended a meeting in the southern city of Kandahar.<\/p>\n<p>Raziq, an anti-Taliban strongman and key US ally who was credited with keeping a lid on the insurgency in the south, was killed along with Kandahar\u2019s provincial intelligence chief and an Afghan journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel David Butler, spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, initially confirmed on Twitter that three unidentified people were injured: one US service member, one US civilian and a coalition contractor.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington A US army general was among those injured in a Taliban attack on top US and Afghan security chiefs inside a highly secure compound last week in Kandahar province, a military spokesman confirmed. US Army Brigadier General Jeffrey Smiley, in charge of NATO\u2019s military advisory mission in Afghanistan, suffered at least one gunshot wound [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45103,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45101\/revisions\/45103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}