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| Afghanistan |
| Afghans Seek Help Tracking VP’s Killers |
| 2002-07-08 |
| President Hamid Karzai's government today asked international peacekeepers to help track down the killers of Vice President Abdul Qadir, gunned down over the weekend in the heart of the capital. Spokeman Sayed Fazel Akbar said this was done "to ensure impartial, just and professional investigation so that criminals can be brought to justice as soon as possible. Interior ministry and police have been ordered to fully cooperate with ISAF in the investigation." Good idea. One politician gets assassinated, all of them can see the same thing happening to themselves... The spokesman for the 19-nation peacekeeping force, Turkish Army Col. Samet Oz, said the Afghan government's request for assistance would be approved. Germany and the United States have also offered to help. Gotta show these people that you can't just go around bumping people off. Well, you can't anymore, anyway... Afghan state television said two people were detained Sunday at a checkpoint in southern Kabul while riding in the same type of car used by the assassins when they escaped. It was red... They were handed over to a state commission formed by Karzai to investigate the murder, Afghan television said. Ten guards on duty at the Ministry of Works, where Qadir was killed, were arrested Saturday for dereliction of duty, according to Kabul police chief Din Mohammed Jurat. Each of them is now wishing he'd never thought about taking that twenty bucks. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |