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    Gunmen kill adviser to Afghan president, lawmaker

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Defense Ministry official says a close adviser to the Afghan president and a member of parliament have been killed during an attack in the capital.

    The official, Gen. Zahir Wardak, says Jan Mohammed Khan, a former governor of southern Uruzgan province and an adviser to President Hamid Karzai, was killed along with Uruzgan lawmaker Mohammed Ashim Watanwal. They were killed when two men wearing suicide vests attacked Khan's home in the western Kabul district of Karti Char.

    Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of the insurgent group.

     

    249 comments

    • ucnada  •  10 mths ago
      spray the opium fields. defoliate. the opium is the talibans´ greatest source of income
      • J 10 mths ago
        And the pharmaceutical companies' too. Just a laboratory reproduction.
      • nonene 10 mths ago
        taleban had banned opium production during their regime, check the facts. opium production increased only after US invasion
      • Stan 10 mths ago
        So so true! Banned.
    • Mahdi  •  10 mths ago
      Karzai is on the list.They had better get better security in place.This country is not ready for democracy.
      • nonene 10 mths ago
        US is not ready for democracy either. real democracy i mean, not the dem-repub musical chair democracy.
      • ektrules 10 mths ago
        A small population of wackos that blow themselves up probably isn't representative of the entire country. U.S. government officials have had many assassination attempts on them too.
      • Middleberger 10 mths ago
        Any country with Muslims is not ready for Democracy, or civilization. Torch the poppy fields, pull out and let them starve to death over there on their own.
    • K  •  10 mths ago
      Looks to me like the Taliban are cleaning house for us of all the crooks in the Afghan Government. Bring our troops home and let them have President Hamid Karzai. They got his crooked half brother last week so give up the rest of the family this week and save our troops in the mean time for the real war on our southern border with Mexico..
      • nonene 10 mths ago
        no body knew karzai before america popped him out of nowhere. maybe you should have made sure he wasnt crooked back then. but did bush care? noooo
      • Ali Khan 10 mths ago
        Yea whole afghan government are corrupt only Taliban were ruling country fine, they have afghan support and can only rule country. Its unfortunate young people like 18-20 year olds are getting sent over to Afghanistan to die for no reason.
    • Raleigh  •  10 mths ago
      Twenty four hours after the last soldier leaves, it will be like we were never there.
    • Rick Perry is not in Texa ...  •  10 mths ago
      GET OUT NOW!! 10 YEARS IS TOO LONG!!
      • Dixiesam 10 mths ago
        $hit...both World Wars did not take that long!
      • carl 10 mths ago
        the russians bailed out in 8 years...
    • Frizbaloid  •  10 mths ago
      The biggest problem with the war in Afghanistan is the same problem with our national budget problem. Too many people have no skin in the game. The Afghan people sit back while a fraction of a percent of their people join the Afghan National Army or National Police. Worst of all they sit back and do nothing to help the American forces. They don't understand or don't care that we are there for them. Likewise, 48% of Americans don't pay any federal income taxes. Exactly what's fair about that? Who is the greedy one: the 48% who pay no taxes but demand the 52% pay more or the 52% who don't complain about what they are paying now but don't want to pay more?
      • Dixiesam 10 mths ago
        Could not have said it any better...except my language would not be so clean
      • Ali Khan 10 mths ago
        Afghans aren't joining army or police because it constitutes apostasy. And quite frankly majority of the country support Taliban, only people in Kabul are against them and its funny when ever they interview the people who are against them its always the ones with no beard or covering. The Afghan people do not want US help there we were happier with taliban.
      • Sheila 10 mths ago
        but "we only have good intentions"!
    • robert h  •  10 mths ago
      The perfect General you need to finish this war is a mix of 1. Patton,2. Rommel,3. Sherman and 4. Genghis Khan. You give me this General and i will end this War in 6 months !
    • Rick G  •  10 mths ago
      "Is this Hell?"
      "No, it's Afghanistan."
    • the coop  •  10 mths ago
      IF I WAS PRES. I WOULD TURN AFGHAN. INTO A DUST BOWL !
    • jamieb  •  10 mths ago
      Bring our soldiers home now! Let them all kill each other over there in their own country. They would'nt know peace if it walked up to them and slapped them!
    • Algonquin  •  10 mths ago
      The odds of long fruitful life for Karzai spending US taxpayers money are not looking good these days
    • Paula  •  10 mths ago
      Yeah let India and China deal with it who cares about these two bass ackwards countries afghan and pakis. They have nothing we need stop them from coming to our shores and bring our men home before we end up like the former Soviet Union. Let them kill each other that's what hey want to do anyway. Then we can take that money apply it to the debt and work on alternate fuel sources so we don't have to deal with the middle east who hates us even more. What ever happened to America being self reliant and help our needy and disabled cut the foreign aid and let's get this country back on the rig track. Paula's Boyfriend
    • Bret  •  10 mths ago
      Get our guys out of this hell hole. We have lost thousands of men and trillions of dollars to kill Bin Laden. Time to leave. Training Afghan women as fighter pilots-insane.
    • Bablcksheep  •  10 mths ago
      10 yrs of war, trillions of $ & lives wasted-why? To feed the military industrial beast & cynical politician's careers. Why not just ask the CIA, etc to do targeted operations ,like the 1 that killed Bin Laden? Like Vietnam, the terrain & guerilla warfare tactics, traditional ground wars arent usually effective.
    • wayne  •  10 mths ago
      The Afgans want to take control of security.....let them.
      We can go home earlier.
    • Vit  •  10 mths ago
      Bring our soldiers home, and let that place go to hell.
    • crossfitisfun  •  10 mths ago
      We should just solely focus on hunting and killing terrorists. We should have never got into the game of nation building. Let them live and govern how they want to. But they can't have terrorists.
    • Cintimarg  •  10 mths ago
      Fighting in Afghanistan bankrupted the Soviet Union, and it's doing a pretty good job on the US, too.

      I've changed my mind about having a presence in the Middle East at all. Let's get the he|| out and send our troops to our borders--more on the Mexico border of course--but also Canada. That way our troops wouldn't be unemployed, we'd save a bundle and still have our military well-trained and at the ready. Then they'd actually be doing something good FOR THE USA!
    • KKKristian  •  10 mths ago
      I would say inside the concrete walled compound built by Americans perhaps the Karzai and his fellows are safe. But to rule a country one would have to move around and needs acceptance from many afghan sects/tribes, this is just telling us that Karzai is not popular enough among Afghan people even though he may be popular among Americans. This war would be won by Talibans, please don't waste tax payer money on this.
    • mike p  •  10 mths ago
      When we pull out the tribesmen will revert to warring between themselves like they've done for centuries.All we did was give them a common enemy.
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