&host=www.rt.com&uri=/news/kandagar-mayor-assasinated-afghanistan/&via=1.1 205.128.88.11:80 (Footprint 4.8/FPMCP)&ua=CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html))
Another senior Afghan official assassinated
Published: 27 July, 2011, 11:08
(AFP Photo / Romeo Gacad)
TAGS: Crime, Politics, Afghanistan, War
The mayor of the Afghan city of Kandahar has been killed by a suicide bomb attack, in the town’s center. It is the latest in a string of assassinations targeting top Afghan officials.
Mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi was killed by a blast on Wednesday as he was talking to a group of people trying to settle a dispute over the construction of houses.
The attacker managed to infiltrate the group and set off a bomb, which was hidden under his turban, police officials said.
One civilian was also killed by the explosion, while another civilian and a security guard were injured.
The Taliban has claimed credit for the assassination.
Hamidi was one of the people considered as a replacement for Hamid Karzai's half-brother Ahmed Wali Karzai as the head of the province. The man was gunned down by one of his own guards two weeks ago.
Jan Mohammad Khan, one of President Karzai's top aides, was also killed recently.
In a separate attack on Wednesday, a roadside bomb killed two Afghan Army soldiers driving a car and wounded five civilians.
The spree of attacks on Afghan officials comes, as NATO combat troops begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan.
27.07.2011, 09:15
6 comments
Still no end to Korean War after 6 decadesThe Korean Peninsula is the site of one of world’s longest-running armed conflicts. While the war there ended in an armistice, both the North and the South have been preparing to renew hostilities at any moment for 58 years now. |
27.07.2011, 11:59
2 comments
“US space program is dead-end”Bill Anders, a retired NASA astronaut who was part of the first US mission to the Moon and took a celebrated photograph of a rising Earth told RT the picture started the environmental movement and explained why the Americans flew to the moon. |
Contrary to Pentagon's ceaseless "success stories", the Afghan people's war to liberate their country from foreign occupation is far from over.
The best way to kill a viper is to cut off it's head, and that is exactly what the Taliban are doing to the top officials of the Karzai regime.
Sure, the American occupiers will boast about the number of Afghan's their occupation troops have killed, but, just like in Vietnam, the Americans will never kill the spirit and desire of the Afghan people yearning to live free of American occupation.
Each day Taliban vengeance is driving Karzai further and further in a dark dank bunker. Karzai must know that his days are numbered.
I agree with what Kihnu posted in the answer. " Each day Taliban vengeance is driving Karzai further and further in a dark dank bunker. Karzai must know that his days are numbered."
Mr. Karzai has to choose for his life as his days are numbered. He is with Taliban or with NATO.