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Suicide bomber kills Kandahar city mayor
Taliban claims responsibility for fatal attack on Ghulam Haidar Hameedi by man
who hid explosives in his turban.
Last Modified: 27 Jul 2011 09:55
The mayor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar city has been killed in a suicide
bombing, provincial officials say.
Ghulam Haidar Hameedi was killed when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives
in a corridor near Hamidi's office, Zalmay Ayoubi, the spokesperson for the
Kandahar governor, said on Wednesday.
"It appears the bomber was carrying the bomb in his turban," Ayoubi said.
Abdul Razaq, the Kandahar police chief, said Hameedi was meeting some elders
from a district of Kandahar when one of them got close to the target and
detonated a bomb hidden in his turban.
Bismullah Afghan Mal, a member of the upper house of parliament from Kandahar,
also confirmed Hameedi's death.
Taliban's claim
Claiming responsibility for the attack, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, the Taliban
spokesperson, told the Associated Press news agency that Hameedi had ordered
the destruction of homes that city officials claimed had been illegally
constructed.
Ahmadi said the Taliban killed him to avenge the deaths of two children who
they allege were killed during the demolition work.
Afghanistan's Taliban has been involved in the many prominent assassinations in
the recent past, and Hameedi's killing is the third assassination of a major
political figure in the last one month.
Ryan Crocker, the new US ambassador to Afghanistan, and General John Allen, the
new commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, both condemned the killing.
"It is an indication of the challenges ahead," Crocker said during his first
briefing at the US embassy in Kabul.
He said the recent string of assassinations could be an indication that the
Taliban "have been damaged to the point that they are resorting to terrorist
attacks.
"Clearly these are horrific attacks but they can also be interpreted as a sign
of organisational weakness on the part of the adversary".
Hameedi's death comes two weeks after President Hamid Karzai's half-brother,
Ahmad Wali Karzai- one of the most powerful men in southern Afghanistan - was
assassinated at his home.
Hameedi, who lived in the US for nearly two decades before returning to
Afghanistan after the collapse of the Taliban in 2001, was considered to be
Wali Karzai's ally in Kandahar.
Power vacuum
Last week, Karzai's inner circle suffered another blow when assailants strapped
with explosives killed Jan Mohammad Khan, an adviser on tribal issues and a
former governor of Uruzgan province in the south.
A member of parliament also was killed in the July 17 attack at Khan's home in
Kabul.
Hameedi's killing came amid a dangerous power vacuum after Ahmad Wali's death.
At a funeral service for Ahmad Wali, a suicide attacker killed a senior
religious leader and at least four other people.
Barack Obama's announcement in June of phased pullout of US troops seems to
have further emboldened the Taliban, who have stepped up violence against
senior officials.
Kandahar was the site of over half of all targeted killings in Afghanistan
between April and June, a UN report said.
Source:
Al Jazeera and agencies
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