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American mayor killed: A Utah mayor serving in Afghanistan with the Army National Guard was killed this week in an apparent insider attack. Brent Taylor, 39, was training Afghan commandos when an Afghan soldier opened fire, fatally wounding the Army major and injuring another service member. The attacker was shot and killed by Afghan troops. Elected mayor of the Salt Lake City suburb of North Ogden in 2013 and reelected in 2017, Taylor, before his last tour, had been deployed to Iraq twice and Afghanistan once. In his final Facebook post, the father of seven described how it was “beautiful to see” 4 million Afghans vote in the country’s legislative elections last month. “Many Americans, NATO allies, and Afghan troops,” he wrote, “have died to make moments like this possible.”