Re: Afghan president's half brother killed, leaving danger...

[Guest guest]

Al Qaeda and the Taliban have used similar ruses before. Not long before 9/11, they assassinated the leader of the Northern Alliance by sending in a suicide crew with a video camera loaded with explosives, posing as journalists seeking an interview. Other times they have used people either working on a base or who were familiar to the soldiers there to bring in bombs. There's really no telling how often these tactics and other assassinations happen in the country that we don't hear about. I know that in Iraq many assassinations are going on being carried out at night by men with silenced pistols. It is believed they are likely Sunnis trying to kill off opposition supporters while the US is still strong enough to control the Shia and other populations.

In a message dated 7/12/2011 12:07:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

Tooryalai Wesa, the provincial governor of Kandahar, identified the assassin as Sardar Mohammad and said he was a close, "trustworthy" person who had gone to Wali Karzai's house to get him to sign some papers.