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| Gunmen kill senior Afghan peace negotiator |
| 2012-05-14 |
| [Dawn] Gunmen rubbed out a top Afghan peace negotiator in the capital Kabul on Sunday, police said, dealing a massive blow to the country's attempts to negotiate a peace deal with Taliban jihad boys. Maulvi Arsala Rahmani was one of the most senior members on Afghanistan's High Peace Council, set up by President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... two years ago to open talks with jihad boys. "He (Rahmani) was stuck in heavy traffic when another car beside him opened fire," said General Mohammad Zahir, head of the investigations unit for Kabul police. Rahmani, a former Taliban minister, was on his way to a meeting with politicians and other officials in a government-run media centre in the heavily barricaded diplomatic centre of Kabul. "His driver did not immediately realise that Rahmani had been killed," police official Zahir told Rooters, adding that no one had been tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! in connection with the shooting. Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahed, denied involvement in Sunday's liquidation. The head of the peace council and former Afghan president, Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... , was assassinated by a jacket wallah last year. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I bet that's our fault too, Hamid? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-05-14 08:09 |