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How a Taliban Assassin Got Close Enough to Kill a General

The uniform of the late Gen. Abdul Raziq, one of the Afghan army’s top generals, at his home in Kandahar, Oct. 24, 2018. In his rise from lowly border guard to larger-than-life security chief in a little over a decade, Raziq built nothing less than an empire in southern Afghanistan. He was assassinated by a Taliban operative on Oct. 18, 2018. (Mujib Mashal/The New York Times)