A prominent former commander of the ousted Taliban regime Agha Shirin Salangi was assassinated by unknown gunmen in Afghan capital Kabul. "Unidentified armed men Wednesday evening opened fire on Agha Shirin Salangi outside his residence in Kabul city killing him on the spot," daily ERADA reported. The murderers made their good escape. However, Kabul Deputy Chief Amin Khalil Zada said that a sport utility vehicle with blacked-out windows pulled up to Agha Shirin Salangi's home Wednesday and shot him with a Kalashnikov rifle. Salangi died later at a hospital, Zada said, adding "no arrests were immediately made." Shirin Salangi used to live in mystery since the fall of the fundamentalist Taliban nearly two years ago and since then his whereabouts were not known to public.
| Meaning he came over to the Karzai regime, maybe even before the going got tough... |
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