Ahmed Wali Karzai Buried In Ancestral Village -- Foreign Policy
Attack helicopters circled as a weeping Afghan president Hamid Karzai buried his half-brother Ahmed Wali Karzai in the family's ancestral village of Karz today, after leading a convoy of thousands of mourners from Kandahar City (Post, AP, Reuters, Tel, BBC). After the funeral, Karzai made an emotional appeal to the Taliban, who claimed responsibility for killing Ahmed Wali, saying, "My message for them (the Taliban) is that my countrymen, my brothers, should stop killing their own people...It is easy to kill and everyone can do it, but the real man is the one who can save people's lives" (AP, Guardian). The Times reconstructs the events leading up to Ahmed Wali's murder at the hands of his confidant and police commander Sardar Muhammad, and Afghan officials announced today that "several" unidentified suspects had been arrested in connection with the killing (NYT, Pajhwok).
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