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Roadside Bomb Kills Afghan District Chief
[An Nahar] A roadside kaboom killed an anti-Taliban district governor and two of his bodyguards Wednesday in southern Afghanistan's volatile Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, an official said.

The governor of Khan Neshin district, Massoud Khan, was a fierce opponent of drug smugglers and the Taliban, who issued him with death threats, provincial front man Daud Ahmedi told Agence Francce Presse.

The governor, aged in his early 30s, was driving to work when his vehicle hit the device, Ahmedi said.

"The district governor Massoud Khan along with two bodyguards were martyred in the blast," Ahmedi said, adding that two other bodyguards were also maimed.

The Taliban was not immediately reachable for comment but roadside kabooms are the weapon of choice for the Islamic fascisti in their decade-long insurgency against international forces and the Kabul government.

Parts of Helmand remain highly unstable although bustling provincial capital Lashkar Gah is under the control of Afghan forces and three other districts are due to switch from NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
to Afghan security control.

There are around 140,000 international troops, mainly from the United States, in Afghanistan helping government forces combat the insurgency.


Posted by: Fred 2011-12-15
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