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Afghanistan
Botched effort to bump off Khost security wallah
2002-03-24
  • Gunmen opened fire on the security chief of Khost province, killing one person and injuring two others. Sur Gul, the security chief, escaped unhurt. But the culprits, suspected to have been allies of the U.S. Special Forces in Khost, have taken refuge in their fortified airport compound, said Hazratuddin, intelligence chief of Khost. "We have asked the Americans to hand them over but so far they haven't," he said in a telephone interview. The governor of Khost, Mohammed Ibrahim, also has demanded their arrest.

    According to Hazratuddin, the men opened fire on Gul because the security chief had tried to disarm them a day earlier in the market. "We will talk again tomorrow (Monday) with the Americans and I am sure they will hand them over. I was busy today with the funeral, but I don't think they will refuse," Ibrahim said in a telephone interview. The intelligence chief said the vehicle was demolished. "They fired many rounds into the truck. Two people are in very bad condition," said Hazratuddin. The man who died was Gul's driver and bodyguard.

    A volatile city, bristling with men with guns, Khost has been carved up into areas of control by warlords of varying strength. The majority of the city is under the control of warlord Bacha Khan Zardran, but within Zardran's group there are rivalries.
    Cheeze. We give you one simple little task and what do you do? You screw it up.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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