US General Says He May Not Have Been Target of Kandahar Attack

Commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan U.S. General Scott Miller attends a meeting in the Kandahar Governor's Compaund in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Oct. 18, 2018. Reuters/ via Reuters TV

KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan—The top U.S. general in Afghanistan said on Oct. 19, he did not believe he was the target of an attack that killed the powerful police chief of Kandahar, and Afghan officials said the gunman may have deliberately avoided hitting him.

The gunman assassinated the police chief of Kandahar province on Thursday along with a top Afghan intelligence agency officer, but the U.S. commander of Afghanistan’s NATO-led force, General Scott Miller, who was standing nearby when the attack occurred, was not hurt.