Afghan VP Assasinated

Foxnews ^ | 07-06-02 | GRRRRR

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KABUL, Afghanistan

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Time for us to GET OUT of Ashcanistan...or send Hillary to Raise a Village...

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Rest of Article at the header link...

[DooDahhhh]

Send her on

[contessa machiaveli]

remember the last time an important afghani leader was assassinated? it was a possible signal to begin the horror of sept. 11th. be vigilant folks, nothing happens in a vacuum in that part of the world.

[NautiNurse]

remember the last time an important afghani leader was assassinated?

Same thought occurred to me when I heard this news.

[steve50]

Any idea what tribe the VP was? Karzai was trying to get as many of his bunch as possible in offices, if the VP was of a different clan it's just as likely Karzai had him offed.

[contessa machiaveli]

he was a pashtun. everyone is an enemy to someone in afghanistan.

[Kaslin]

Can you tell me where Ashcanistan is?

[Ranger]

Saturday, 6 July, 2002, 12:03 GMT 13:03 UK

Afghan minister assassinated

Qadir's car was sprayed with bullets

The Afghan Minister for Public Works, Haji Abdul Qadir, has been shot dead in the capital Kabul.

Qadir stormed out of the Bonn talks

Government officials said Mr Qadir, who was also one of the country's three vice-presidents, was shot in the head as he left his ministry.

He was attacked by unknown gunmen who approached him in a car. His driver was also killed.

Correspondents say the killing of Mr Qadir will heighten concerns over the problems of establishing security in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taleban.

His death follows the killing of the Afghan aviation minister and an assassination attempt on the country's defence minister

 

'Jalalabad's strongman'

Government officials say Mr Qadir's killers have escaped.

He was one of the most powerful men in eastern Afghanistan, and one of the few Pashtun members of the interim government.

The BBC's Kate Clarke in Kabul says that after 20 years as a military leader Mr Qadir would have had many enemies.

But our correspondent says he also has friends and supporters in the east of Afghanistan, who may well want to try to take revenge.

Mr Qadir was the governor of Jalalabad when the Taleban arrived in the city in 1994.

It was thought he had brokered a deal to stay there, but fled when negotiations broke down.

Qadir's brother, Abdul Haq was killed by the Taleban

Mr Qadir returned to Jalalabad after the demise of the Taleban to reclaim his governorship.

He was involved in the Afghan reconstruction talks in the German city of Bonn last year.

He stormed out of the talks saying the delegations there representing his country did not contain sufficient Pashtun representatives.

Mr Qadir was also involved in a controversial crackdown on opium production in the east of the country.

The policy had led to reports of corruption among officials, and clashes with farmers resulting in a several deaths and injuries.

Violent attacks

Last April there was an assassination attempt on the country's interim Defence Minister Mohammad Fahim.

Four civilians were killed and more than 50 others injured when a bomb exploded as Mr Fahim's convoy visited the eastern city of Jalalabad.

Last February, the Afghan Civil Aviation Minister, Abdul Rahman, was killed at Kabul airport in controversial circumstances in which other government ministers were implicated.

Mr Qadir's brother, Abdul Haq, was a legendary Mujahideen fighter.

He entered Afghanistan last year while it was still under Taleban control, attempting to promote an uprising.

But the Taleban captured and executed him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_2103000/2103532.stm

 

[Blue Screen of Death]

Any idea what tribe the VP was? Karzai was trying to get as many of his bunch as possible in offices, if the VP was of a different clan it's just as likely Karzai had him offed.

Well, we will just have to send some of our diversity trainers over there.

[aristeides]

If he was a Pushtun, he's the same ethnicity as Karzai.

[STD]

I agree, these Afghans are animals. With Islam to guide them, they don't need KFOR.

[steve50]

I thought Karzai was a Tajik.

[aristeides]

Abdul Haq's brother? Wasn't it thought that the ISI was behind the killing of Haq?

[aristeides]

Karzai has allied himself with Tajiks in the past, but he is a Pushtun himself.

[swarthyguy]

Don't know what makes you suspicious of our Pakistani allies. Just because there was a Taliban/alqaeda welcome committee waiting for poor Abdul Haq doesn't mean the ISI tipped off the Taliban. Now you're beginning to sound like those delusional Indians. (HA!)

[The Duke]

This is a very strong indicator that it's starting to be time for us to pull out. Once the people of Afghanistan start to kill one another we know they've been returned to their normal state.

Later, if one of the groups of mongrel tribes starts to become prominent, we just bomb the bejesus out of them and all will once again be right with the world.

Of course we're led by fools who will try to civilize those who quite apparently can never be civilized.

[IronJack]

If this isn't al-Qaida, then it spells the start of real trouble for the Karzai administration. The one thing Afghanistan can't survive is tribal warfare. That's what started the 1980 war, when the opportunistic Russians decided to secure their southern underbelly while the Afghans were killing each other.

This could be a classic example of surviving the war and losing the peace.