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Deputy Chief of Intelligence Is Slain in Afghanistan
New York Times ^ | 09/02/09 | Stephen Farrell and Abdul Waheed Wafa

Posted on 09/02/2009 9:13:23 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

MEHTARLAM, Afghanistan — The second-ranking intelligence official in Afghanistan and a prominent ally of President Hamid Karzai was assassinated by a suicide bomber on Wednesday morning in a blast that also killed 15 others outside the main mosque in the official’s hometown, near Kabul, officials and witnesses said.

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“In front of a mosque in the holy month of Ramadan, killing mullahs, is not something that a Talib would do,” he said.

Oh....so they have boundaries?

1 posted on 09/02/2009 9:13:23 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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