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Afghan army says ministry attacker was outsider

Thursday, 21 April 2011


KABUL, Apr 20: The Afghan military says it has confirmed that the man who attacked the country's Defense Ministry earlier this week was not a soldier, but an insurgent who managed to sneak past the ministry's security. The Taliban have claimed that the assailant who opened fire inside the ministry compound on Monday was an army officer working as a sleeper agent for the insurgency -AP