• Afghan Gen.Abdul Raziq, police chief of Kandahar, poses for a picture during a graduation ceremony at a police training center in Kandahar province last year. The Afghan security chief and a journalist were killed and three Americans wounded on Thursday when a gunman opened fire on a high-level security meeting attended by top U.S. commander Gen. Scott Miller, officials said. | AFP-JIJI
    Afghan Gen.Abdul Raziq, police chief of Kandahar, poses for a picture during a graduation ceremony at a police training center in Kandahar province last year. The Afghan security chief and a journalist were killed and three Americans wounded on Thursday when a gunman opened fire on a high-level security meeting attended by top U.S. commander Gen. Scott Miller, officials said. | AFP-JIJI

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KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN – Gen. Abdul Razeq, one of Afghanistan’s most powerful security commanders, was killed on Thursday in a shooting attack by a bodyguard that dealt a severe blow to the Afghan government ahead of parliamentary elections on Saturday, officials said.

Gen. Scott Miller, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan who had been at a meeting with Razeq and the governor of the southern province of Kandahar only moments earlier, was not injured in the attack.

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