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KANDAHAR MAYOR KILLED BY A BOMB
KANDAHAR MAYOR KILLED BY A BOMB
The mayor of the volatile Afghan city of Kandahar, Ghulam Haidar Hameedi, has been killed in a suicide attack, on Wednesday 07/27/2011. The attacker detonated explosives in his turban as the mayor made an address at the city hall, police said.
On 04/22/2011 the Kandahar police chief Khan Mohammad Mujahid was killed when a suicide bomber managed to penetrate the defences of the police headquarters by wearing a police uniform (see – Kandahar-Escape).
Two weeks ago, President Hamid Karzai’s influential half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was also killed in Kandahar (see – Karzai 07.12.11). His death prompted renewed fears over stability in Kandahar, seen as a critical area in the fight against the Taliban. Less than a week after Ahmad Wali Karzai’s killing, a senior aide to Mr Karzai, Jan Mohammad Khan, died in an attack on his home in Kabul (see – Jan Khan 07.17.11).
Just half a year ago, in 02/2011, NATO-ISAF commanders said Taliban tide in nearby Helmand province is retreating (see – Taleban tide 02.14.11). The violence comes as NATO-ISFA forces begin the handover of security to local troops in parts of the country. The Kandahar Dragon-Strike operation of summer 2010 seems to result, eventually, very little.
Correspondents said Ghulam Haidar Hameedi had been speaking to tribal elders who had come to discuss a land dispute when the attack took place.
The mayor had ordered the destruction of about 200 houses in the Loyawala area of Kandahar as they had been built illegally, and two children had been killed as they were knocked down on Tuesday, security sources said.
His death prompted renewed fears over stability in Kandahar, seen as a critical area in the fight against the Taliban.
Ghulam Haidar Hameedi had returned to Afghanistan from the US in 2006 at the personal request of President Karzai and was seen as one of the most competent and trusted politicians in the city.
Ghulam Haidar Hameedi survived an attack on his car in 2009, but his last two deputy mayors were both killed in 2010.
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