Washington, Nov 6: A top US general has been sacked in Afghanistan for intemperate remarks against president Hamid Karzai and the entire Afghan leadership, calling them “corruption plagued” and ungrateful of US support , in an interview published on Politico.
Major General Peter Fuller, deputy commander of Nato's mission to train Afghan forces was axed after making “inappropriate public comments”, CNN reported quoting US and Nato officials in Kabul.
He is the second top US general to face the axe, after general Stanley McChrystal, former chief Nato commander in Afghanistan, who was dismissed in June last year after his remarks belittling Obama administration officials in an interview to Rolling Stone magazine.
He also said that, Afghan leaders did not fully recognize the human and financial cost borne by the US administration for Afghanistan and calling them ungrateful of American support.
He also criticized Karzai after his remarks last month that Afghanistan would support Pakistan, if Islamabad went to war with the US.
