Posted on 05/13/2012 2:41:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An assassin on Sunday shot dead a former high-ranking Taliban official working on reconciling Afghanistan’s insurgency with the government, a fresh blow to peace efforts on the day Kabul announced it was gradually taking the lead from the U.S.-led coalition for providing security in much of the country.
A gunman with a silenced pistol killed Arsala Rahmani as he was riding in his car in one of the capital’s most secure areas near Kabul University, police said.
The death of Rahmani, a top member of the Afghan peace council and a senator in parliament’s upper house, dealt another setback to efforts to negotiate a political resolution to the decade-long war. Rahmani was a former Taliban official who reconciled with the government and was active in trying to set up formal talks with the insurgents. His assassination follows that of the council’s head last year.
He was shot just hours before President Hamid Karzai announced the third of a five-stage transition process that will have the Afghan National Security forces in control of the country by the end of 2014, when most foreign combat troops are to leave the country.
Ashraf Ghani, who is head of a commission overseeing the transition to Afghan-led security, said this stage — which ends with the Afghans taking the lead for areas representing 75 percent of the population — should be complete within six months.
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The only way to bring peace to Afghanistan is to nuke it from orbit.
Two words: MacGyver.
Afghanistan has a Peace Council?
One word: Ziva
But with this President it’s more like McGruber
Afghanistan is pretty much hell on earth. Idiots thinking they are smart wanting to live in a cave.
Nuke them or let them be.
There will probly be at war with each other for at least a couple a more thousand years now.
Sounds like a clean hit too, no mention of the
assassin being caught or even identified.
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