Suicide Bomber With Explosives in Turban Kills Populist Kandahar Mayor

Suicide Bomber With Explosives in Turban Kills Populist Kandahar Mayor

at 13:20 on July 27, 2011, EDT.
Murray Brewster, The Canadian Press

He liked to cast himself as one of the few honest men in Kandahar, a plucky troublemaker not afraid to stick a finger in the eye of authority or vested interests.

And in the end, those traits might have contributed to the brutal death of Ghulam Haider Hamidi, the outspoken mayor of Kandahar city.

He had survived previous attempts to kill him, but a suicide bomber with explosives concealed in his turban assassinated Hamidi on Wednesday.

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