Killed by an exploding turban:

No really. I wonder if this now means no hats whatsoever in the western world? Why don’t we just ban Muslims? Then we can go back to wearing whatever we want on aircraft or anywhere else.

From The Daily Mail:

Former Afghan president and four bodyguards assassinated by suicide bomber

  • Burhanuddin Rabbani headed peace council to build contacts with the Taliban
  • Hamid Karzai cuts short visit to U.S. to deal with attack

By Rose Parker

Last updated at 5:12 PM on 20th September 2011

Assassinated: Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed by a suicide bomberAssassinated: Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed by a suicide bomber

A former Afghan president was today assassinated by a suicide bomber who had concealed explosives in his turban.

Burhanuddin Rabbani had been heading a government peace council set up to build contacts with the Taliban.  

Four of his bodyguards also died and a key presidential adviser was wounded.

President Hamid Karzai cut short a visit to the U.S. over the attack, which dealt a harsh blow to peace efforts after a decade of war.

The turban bomber entered Rabbani’s house in the capital Kabul on Tuesday evening and blew himself up inside, Mohammad Zahir, the chief of criminal investigation for the Kabul police.

Rabbani headed the country’s High Peace Council, which was set up by the Afghan government to work toward a political solution to the decade-long war. However, it had made little headway since it was formed a year ago.

Rabbani was president of the Afghan government that preceded the Taliban rule. After he was driven from Kabul in 1996, he became the nominal head of the Northern Alliance, mostly minority Tajiks and Uzbeks, who swept to power in Kabul after the Taliban’s fall. Rabbani is an ethnic Tajik.

His killing dampens hopes of starting peace negotiations with Taliban insurgents and also will hamper efforts to keep regional and ethnic rivalries, which feed the insurgency, in check.

As one of the wise old man of Afghan politics and the leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, Rabanni’s role in the attempts to reach out to the Taliban and seeking a political deal with them – with the U.S. blessing – will be hard to replicate in the near future.

His death could unleash a well of resentment building up among some senior Northern Alliance members, who accuse President Hamid Karzai of colluding with the Taliban.

Guard: Afghan policemen secure the alley leading to Mr Rabbani's house after the former president was killed earlier todayGuard: Afghan policemen secure the alley leading to Mr Rabbani’s house after the former president was killed earlier today

Already Afghanistan’s ethnic minorities have begun to re-arm in the face of negotiations with the Taliban. Rabbani’s death is likely to accelerate the re-arming and lay the foundation for a bitter civil war once U.S. troops leave the country in 2014.

Karzai’s adviser Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai was wounded in the attack.

A relative who answered Stanekzai’s phone said that the wounds did not appear to be life-threatening, but Stanekzai was in the hospital.

The relative declined to give his name because of the sensitivity of the situation

Stanekzai is chief executive of the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program, a highly touted program funded by the U.S. and its coalition allies to bring mid- and lower-level Taliban back into Afghan society.

The programme has so far only managed to reintegrated about 2,000 of the estimated 25,000-40,000 insurgents in Afghanistan.

Reintegration was the other half of reconciliation, which is aims to try and broker a peace deal with the senior Taliban leadership.

Bomb: Security officials on the way to the scene in Kabul after the bomber entered the house with explosives in his turbanBomb: Security officials on the way to the scene in Kabul after the bomber entered the house with explosives in his turban

 

 

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4 Replies to “Killed by an exploding turban:”

  1. Yes, Kurt Westergaard was absolutely right about it. That is why he has to be killed so that the truth about pislam doesn’t reach the western kafirs.

  2. The sum total of the creative impulse of the religious Muslim is bound up in the question: ‘What can we make explode?’ and the answer is everything from the anus to the turban. So far.