KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) A suicide bomber posing as a Taliban peace envoy assassinated a former Afghan president who for the past year headed a government council trying to negotiate a political settlement with the insurgents.
Afghanistan's former president Burhanuddin Rabbani smiles during an interview with
Police in Kabul confirmed the assassination on Tuesday of Afghanistan's former president
Tuesday's attack, carried out in former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani's Kabul home by a militant who detonated explosives hidden in his turban, dealt a harsh blow to efforts at ending a decade of war.
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