U.S. general says he may not have been 的 of Kandahar attack
By Rupam Jain and Jibran Ahmad
KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan Oct 19 (Reuters) - The 最高の，を越す U.S. general in Afghanistan said on Friday he did not believe he was the 的 of an attack that killed the powerful police 長，指導者 of Kandahar, and Afghan 公式の／役人s said the 銃器携帯者／殺しや may have deliberately 避けるd hitting him.
The 銃器携帯者／殺しや assassinated the police 長，指導者 of Kandahar 州 on Thursday along with a 最高の，を越す Afghan 知能 機関 officer, but the U.S. 指揮官 of Afghanistan's 北大西洋条約機構-led 軍隊, General Scott Miller, who was standing nearby when the attack occurred, was not 傷つける.
"My 査定／評価 is that I was not the 的. It was a very の近くに 限定するd space. But I don't 査定する／（税金などを）課す that I was the 的," Miller told Afghanistan's Tolo News TV in an interview.
General Abdul Razeq, police 指揮官 of the southern 州 and one of Afghanistan's most powerful 安全 公式の／役人s, was fatally 負傷させるd by a 護衛 of the 地方の 知事 as he （機の）カム from a 会合 with 公式の／役人s on Thursday.
"It's been a long and painstaking 旅行 in which he finally 後継するd and got space の中で the 護衛s of the 知事," one Taliban 指揮官 said.
"We had no idea about such an important 会合 there as our prime 的 was General Razeq," he said.
In 新規加入, the 地元の 長，率いる of the NDS 知能 service was killed and the 地方の 知事 厳しく 負傷させるd, while the 攻撃者 himself was killed.
Miller was also at the 会合 and was 長，率いるing to his ヘリコプター to return to Kabul when the 銃器携帯者／殺しや, whom a Taliban 広報担当者 identified as a 21 year-old from Ghazni 州 called Raza Mohammad, known as Abu Dujana, opened 解雇する／砲火／射撃.
Razeq, a ruthless 指揮官 （刑事）被告 of 拷問 and other 乱用s by human 権利s 選挙運動者s, was one of the Taliban's most hated and 効果的な enemies, and the 謀反のs said the attack had been 用意が出来ている for some time.
"Razeq had become an incurable 病気 like 癌 to us," said on e 上級の Taliban 指揮官.
REPERCUSSIONS
The Taliban （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the attack in a 声明 説 both Razeq and Miller were the 的s, but the 指揮官 said they only knew very late that the U.S. general would be 現在の at the 会談 with 地元の 安全 公式の／役人s.
He said the 殺し屋 told his handlers on Thursday that a big 会合 was taking place where Miller would also be 現在の.
"Then we changed our idea and directed him to use all his sources and kill General Miller and General Razeq," he said.
Two Americans and a 連合 請負業者 were 負傷させるd but Afghan 安全 公式の／役人s, who say Pakistan was 伴う／関わるd in the 計画（する）, said they believed the 攻撃者 deliberately 避けるd 殺人，大当り Miller.
"They didn't want repercussions from the U.S. and the international community. It was a pure 警告 for Miller that they can 攻撃する，衝突する him if they want to," said one of the Afghan 公式の／役人s, who spoke on 条件 of anonymity.
Razeq himself was a 猛烈な／残忍な critic of Pakistan and its 知能 service, which Afghan 公式の／役人s 定期的に 告発する／非難する of supporting Taliban 操作／手術s, a 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 Islamabad 否定するs.
On Friday, the 長，指導者 of the Pakistan army staff 問題／発行するd a 声明 非難するing the Kandahar 暴力／激しさ and 説 it supported 率先s に向かって peace in the 地域.
A foreign 安全 公式の／役人 said Razeq had stopped visiting the 知事's house in 最近の months because he 恐れるd it had been infiltrated and had only gone because Miller and his 代表 were there.
"This is just a message to the Afghan 政府 and U.S. 軍の 指揮官s that whenever and wherever we want, we can enter and carry out attacks on them," said a Taliban 指揮官 in Helmand. (付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Hamid Shalizi; 令状ing by James Mackenzie Editing by Robert Birsel)
