Hamidi's Assassination

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Ghulam Haider Hamidi (left)

A suicide bomber hiding a bomb inside his turban killed on Wednesday the mayor of Kandahar, hard working and nice 65-year-old American-Afghan Ghulam Haider Hamidi.
Hamidi died on Wednesday morning and was praised by both Afghan and American colleagues for his knowledge in administering the city.
He had been living in Virginia, U.S.A., for 20 years, and worked as an accountant. He chose to come and stay in Afghanistan, and take charge of the duties befalling the mayor of the city of half million people.
By this crime, the Taliban hit the highest profile personality in a series of assassinations carried out in the past few weeks, that started with the half-brother of the president Hamid Karzai and went on with the killing of one of his advisors.
Kandahar is the birthplace of the Taliban and the center of the United States army’s surge in 2010. U.S. army said last year that the tens of thousands troops arrived here would uproot all Taliban safe heavens.

Hamidi's Assassination

However, the killing today left the people of Kandahar with a distinct sense of vulnerability, though the city has been hit almost every month by such an assassination.
Hamidi was considered by many the real future of Kandahar, a man with vision, committed to change and betterment.
The assassination is said to have occurred while the mayor was meeting a delegation of people from a neighborhood of the city, who were protesting against the demolition of illegally built houses.
The bomber had the bomb hidden in his turban and detonated it as the mayor passed by. The Taliban has taken responsibility for the assassination.
Hamidi was described as a man who had stronger ties with the Americans than any others that have been killed in Afghanistan, a man that was in charge of the most important urban settlement in the south of the country.
The assassination is about to deliver a blow to the American efforts of transferring power to the Afghan authorities.

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