American Citizen Killed By Afghan Man Employed By US Government At CIA Compound

What the hell is going on here??

An Afghan employee of the U.S. government opened fire inside a CIA office in Kabul on Sunday evening, killing an American and injuring a second, U.S. and Afghan officials said, in the second major breach of embassy security in two weeks. The killing adds to a sense of insecurity already heightened by a 20 hour-siege of the embassy district in mid-September, and the assassination a week later of the government’s peace envoy, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani.

The CIA compound is one of the most heavily guarded in Kabul, and has been off-limits for almost a decade, since shortly after the Taliban’s fall from power in 2001.

It also lies at the heart of the capital’s heavily-guarded military, political and diplomatic district, a virtual “green zone” that is almost impossible for ordinary Afghans to enter.

It was not clear if the U.S. citizens were victims of a rogue employee who had been won over to the insurgent cause, or just the escalation of an argument in a city were tensions are high and many people carry guns. There are precedents for both. The “lone attacker” was killed, and the injured U.S. citizen was taken to a military hospital, U.S. embassyspokesman Gavin Sundwall said on Monday.

“There was a shooting incident at an annex of the U.S. embassy in Kabul last night involving an Afghan employee who was killed. The motivation for the attack is still under investigation at this time,” Sundwall said.

The shooting follows a string of attacks by Afghan security forces against their NATO-led mentors carried out either by “rogue” soldiers and police or by insurgents who have infiltrated security forces. The Taliban could not immediately be reached for comment.

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