This morning Ghulam Haider Hamidi, mayor of Kandahar, was killed by a suicide bomber who concealed his explosives in his turban. The attack was carried out at Kandahar’s municipal complex. Hamidi was the runner up in filling the position of the late governor Ahmed Wali Karzai, who was murdered by a member of his own security detail just a couple weeks ago.
This really spooked a lot of us because of our close working relationship with Hamidi. Our project has spent the past year building up projects for the benefit to Kandahar, and the mayor had been a central focus.
This is only my opinion from what I’ve pieced together from hearsay, but it’s my belief that the past few assassinations are the results from an ongoing turf war that has more to do with tribal power, than that of any Taliban tactic. There seems to be a rift between several power-broking Afghan families (much like a mafia war), and the Taliban is all too happy to claim responsibility to further it’s cause.
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