This just came up on my virtual desk, and this is all that is known about it so far. I do not know the names and there isn’t any chatter on the forums yet. This attack was at the police training center in Kandahar. I will post any edits if anything pops up. Ms Sparky has it up on her blog as well.
Rest in peace to the fallen, and all condolences go out to the friends and families of these brave men. –Matt
Edit: 06/08/2010- Two Killed in Attack on Afghanistan Police Training Facility– An American police mentor and a Nepalese security guard working under DynCorp International’s Afghan police training contract were tragically killed yesterday, when insurgents attacked a police training facility in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Gary W. Willard, 44, of Resaca, Georgia, deployed to Afghanistan as a police mentor on June 22, 2009. Prior to his work in Afghanistan, he was a sergeant with the Calhoun Police Department in Georgia. Earlier, he spent almost ten years with the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office in Dalton, Georgia. Before his law enforcement career he was a member of the United States Marine Corps.
Hit Bahadur Gurung, 39, of Nepal worked as a security guard at the Kandahar police training facility.
“These men supported the mission in Afghanistan with courage, honor and excellence, and gave their lives in pursuit of a more secure Afghanistan,” says CEO Bill Ballhaus. “We extend our deepest sympathies to their families, loved ones and colleagues.”
Link to release here.
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US Contractor, NATO Troops Killed In Afghanistan
6/7/2010
Two foreign nationals, including a U.S. contractor, were killed on Monday in a suicide-bomb attack by Taliban on a police training camp in southern Afghanistan, reports said.Also on Monday, three soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in the country.The U.S. Embassy said an American working for Dyncorp, a U.S. security company, was killed when a suicide-bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a police training center in the southern city of Kandahar. It did not disclose the nationality of the other person killed.Moments later, an attempt by two other bombers to enter the compound was foiled by security forces who shot them to death, reports quoting a spokesman for the provincial Governor said.
The ISAF casualties occurred in separate incidents in the restive southern region, NATO said in a statement.The latest deaths take to 138 the number of NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan so far this year.The Taliban attacks come a day after Afghan Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar and intelligence chief Amrullah Salah resigned owning responsibility for failure to prevent Taliban attacks on Afghan Peace Jirga last week.The office of President Hamid Karzai defended the decision to remove the top security officials, insisting they must be held accountable for the security lapse.
Story here.