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By Kim Gamel The Associated Press KABUL, AfGhAnistAn » An Afghan police commander opened fire Friday on two Associated Press journalists inside a security forces base in eastern Afghanistan, kill - ing prize-winning photog- rapher Anja Niedringhaus and wounding veteran cor- respondent Kathy Gannon. Niedringhaus, 48, who had covered conflict zones from the Balkans in the 1990s to Iraq, Libya and Af - ghanistan and was part of a team of AP photographers who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, died instantly of her wounds. Gannon, who for many years was the news organi - zation's Afghanistan bureau chief and currently is a spe- cial correspondent for the re- gion, was shot three times in the wrists and shoulder. Af- ter surgery, she was in stable condition and spoke to med- ical personnel before being flown to Kabul. "Anja was a vibrant, dy- namic journalist well-loved for her insightful photo- graphs, her warm heart and joy for life. We are heartbro- ken at her loss," said AP Ex- ecutive Editor Kathleen Car- roll, speaking in New York. Niedringhaus and Gannon worked together repeatedly in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, covering the conflict from some of the most dangerous hotspots of the Taliban insurgency. They often focused on the war's im - pact on Afghan civilians — and they embedded several times with Afghan police and military, reporting on their determination to build up their often underequipped forces to face the fight with militants. Gannon also knows several leading Taliban well, and was one of the few West - ern reporters allowed into Afghanistan during the Tali- ban's rule in the 1990s. Friday's attack was par- ticularly startling because it came as an insider shoot- ing by a member of the Af- ghan security forces — the first known instance of an in- sider attack on journalists. It came on the eve of Af- ghanistan's elections for a new president and provincial councils. The Taliban have vowed to disrupt the voting and have stepped up violence in recent weeks, including in - creased attacks on civilian targets in Kabul and the kill- ings of a Swedish journalist and Afghan journalist for the French news agency Agence France-Presse. Niedringhaus and Gan - non were traveling Friday in a convoy of election workers delivering ballots in the east- ern city of Khost. The convoy was protected by Afghan se- curity forces. They were in their own car with a trans- lator and an AP Television News freelancer. They had arrived in the heavily guarded district compound and were wait - ing for the convoy to move, said the freelancer, who wit- nessed the shooting. A unit commander iden- tified by authorities as Naq- ibullah walked up to the car, yelled "Allahu Akbar" — God is Great — and opened fire on them in the back seat with his AK-47, the free - lancer said. The officer then surrendered to the other po- lice and was arrested. There have been re - peated instances in recent years of Afghan police or military personnel open- ing fire on and killing in- ternational troops working with the country's security forces. The attackers are usually either suspected Taliban infiltrators or Af - ghans who have come to op- pose the foreign presence in the country. Taliban spokesman Zabi- hullah Mujahid denied re- sponsibility for the attack. K host Prov incial Po - lice Chief Faizullah Ghyrat said the attacker, Naqibul- lah, confessed to the shoot- ing and told authorities he was from Parwan province, northwest of Kabul, and was acting to avenge the deaths of family members in a NATO bombing there. The claim could not be corrobo - rated and officials said they were still investigating the shooter's background. 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