![]() ![]() In his rise from lowly border guard to larger-than-life security chief in a little over a decade, Raziq built nothing less than an empire in southern Afghanistan. ![]() Abdul Raziq, police chief of Kandahar province. The ambush last month took the life of one the nation’s most important bulwarks against the Taliban: Gen. forces.Īfter 17 years of war and the killings of dozens of coalition service members by men in Afghan uniforms, the assault underscored how susceptible the Americans and Afghans remain to the kind of infiltration and insider attacks that, at their peak six years ago, almost derailed the NATO mission in Afghanistan. escape two weeks ago - detailed in interviews with more than a dozen people, including witnesses, family members and officials who have seen investigative reports - have deeply shaken the relationship between Afghan and U.S. general - and barely missing Miller and other officials standing nearby. and Afghan security planners: a Taliban operation months in the making that succeeded in breaching a high-level meeting, killing a powerful Afghan general and a provincial intelligence chief, wounding an Afghan governor and a U.S. The attack was a nightmare scenario for U.S. and NATO forces, when he suddenly raised his Kalashnikov and started firing in bursts. It put him so close to the center of power in Afghanistan that he was just paces away from Gen. ![]()
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