Former Afghan president assassinated in Kabul

By artappraiser on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 4:10pm |

Al Jazeera, September 20, 2011

Burhanuddin Rabbani, president during Mujahiddeen rule, was leading country's peace efforts to reach out to Taliban.

.....Al Jazeera's Abdullah Shahood, reporting from Kabul, said Rabbani was meeting with a Taliban delegation at his home when the attack happened. "I just spoke to one of the High Peace Council members near Rabbani's home," said Shahood. "He said at the meeting with a Taliban delegation, one of the members approached him to try to shake hands and detonated his explosives that he had hidden in his turban."

The latest in a series of targeted killings, Rabbani's is the most high-profile political assassination since 2001....

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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/09/2011920124955977877.html

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Afghan Peace Council Chief Killed in Attack on His Home

By ALISSA J. RUBIN and RICK GLADSTONE, New York Times, 1:50 PM ET

A suicide bomber killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former president and the leader of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, whose main responsibility was negotiating a political end to the war with the Taliban.

by artappraiser on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 4:21pm

A turban bomb according to BBC. Next a rigged Koran as a bomb?

by NCD on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 9:34pm

Life imitates art,...

by jollyroger on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 10:07pm

Former Afghan president assassinated in Kabul

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Afghan Peace Council Chief Killed in Attack on His Home

By ALISSA J. RUBIN and RICK GLADSTONE, New York Times, 1:50 PM ET

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