U.S.and Afghan soldiers run back to Ch-47 Chinook helicopters after searching safe houses and clearing a suspected cache site in Bak, Khowst province, Afghanistan, April 5, 2010. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jeffrey AlexanderKandahar Fears Greater Peril As West Rethinks Its Planned Offensive -- L.A. Times
With NATO emphasizing political aims over military ones in the Taliban's base in south Afghanistan, the insurgents have been assassinating the figures the West would rely upon most.
Even in a death-haunted city, Azizullah Yarmal's fate had the power to shock.
As Kandahar's 61-year-old deputy mayor prostrated himself in prayer at a mosque a few steps from his family home, Taliban assailants pumped five bullets into his body, then made an easy escape along a street that was supposed to have been tightly secured by Afghan police.
Yarmal was among the best-known figures to be gunned down in an intensifying wave of assassinations that many Kandaharis see as linked to much-touted American plans to drive the Taliban from the city the movement considers its spiritual home.
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