KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Army Brigadier General Jeffrey Smiley, was confirmed as one of two Americans wounded in Thursday’s attack that killed the police chief of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a spokeswoman for the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said. Washington, Oct 22 (IANS) The US military has admitted that a US general was wounded in the attack in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province last week which left four top provincial officials dead, according to American media reports. A United States general was wounded in a recent Taliban attack against a provincial governor's complex in southern Afghanistan in which several senior Afghan officials were killed, NATO's Resolute Support Mission confirmed on Monday. The attack, which was claimed by the Taliban, was a devastating blow to the government, decapitating the security command of one of Afghanistan’s most strategically important provinces and demonstrating the insurgents’ ability to strike even top leaders.
A NATO spokesperson confirms Brigadier General Jeffrey D. Smiley as the American wounded by gunfire three days earlier during the attack in which Abdul Raziq Achakzai was assassinated.