[Pak Daily Times] JALALABAD: A magnetic bomb attached to a district governor's vehicle went kaboom!in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing the governor and his bodyguard, provincial authorities said.
The attack in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province highlights the security threat surrounding presidential elections in a month's time, when voters will choose a successor to Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
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"Today 9:00am, a mine attached to the vehicle of Nazyan district governor, Noor Agha Kamran, exploded in the city of Jalalabad," Nangarhar police front man, Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal told AFP. "Unfortunately, district governor, Noor Agha Kamran was martyred along with his one bodyguard, and several passersby were maimed in the attack," he added.
Nangarhar governor front man Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said five bystanders were slightly maimed. They were discharged from the hospital after treatment. No one immediately grabbed credit for the attack but Taliban snuffies regularly use such tactics as part of its fight against Karzai's US-backed government.