Afghan employee kills U.S. citizen at Kabul CIA base

September 30, 2011

A U.S. citizen working for the in Afghanistan was killed by an Afghan also working there. The incident took place in the CIA Annex of the U.S. Embassy at Ariana Hotel in Kabul. The victim was not named.

A second person injured in the incident was sent to a military hospital. The lone attacker was also killed. A senior Taliban commander stated that the attacker had secretly joined the insurgents after a group of Taliban approached him to remind him "of his moral and religious duty as an Afghan."

U.S. officials have stated that an investigation on the incident has started.