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Victim Of Insider Attack, Gen. Harold Greene Was An Engineer By Training

NPR

By Tom Bowman

Published August 5, 2014 at 7:45 PM EDT

NPR has confirmed that U.S. Army Major Gen. Harold Greene was killed in Tuesday's "green-on-blue" attack in Afghanistan. It was his first deployment to the country.

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Tom Bowman is a NPR National Desk reporter covering the Pentagon.

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