Slaying may hurt US image in Afghanistan
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-02 14:36

There are conflicting reports about what triggered the shooting.

Relatives claim the American opened fire during a late-night party because of a personal grievance against the Afghan. But a local militia commander who heard the shooting and later saw Ahmad's body claimed the interpreter was to blame.

The company provides security for foreign contract workers in Afghanistan.

Company officials have repeatedly declined comment.

Fazel Ahmad, 45, a brother of the dead man, said that if the American was allowed to flee it would be a mockery of Afghan democracy.

"My brother who died has seven children. Who will take care of them? This guy should be brought to justice and there should be an open trial because he is a foreigner and he has killed a poor Afghan man," Fazel Ahmad told the AP in Herat.

Also Saturday, police announced the arrest of a key commander suspected in bomb attacks against coalition forces. The commander, known as Gafar, was arrested Wednesday by U.S. and Afghan forces during a raid on a central Afghanistan home, where he tried to conceal his identity by dressing as a woman.

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