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Days Later, Pentagon Says U.S. General Among Wounded In Kandahar Attack

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Smiley was shot twice, according the Pentagon, during an attack in Kandahar which killed the province's chiefs of police and intelligence and wounded the governor.
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The U.S. military command in Afghanistan has acknowledged that an American general was wounded during a deadly insider attack in the southern city of Kandahar last week. Initially, the command

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