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CIA Officer Among Several Killed in Afghan Insider Attack

HeadlineOct 18, 2012

Reports have emerged a CIA officer was among two U.S. intelligence officers killed over the weekend in a suicide bombing by a guard working for the Afghan intelligence service in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province. The attack also killed two Afghan intelligence officials and two Afghan bodyguards. Such insider attacks have been on the rise in Afghanistan, accounting for about 15 percent of coalition troop deaths this year.

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