Gunmen attack Afghan presidential adviser ( 2 assasinated)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution

KABUL, Afghanistan — A police official says gunmen have attacked the home of an adviser to the Afghan president in the capital but had no immediate reports of casualties.

Ashmat Stanekzai, a spokesman for the Kabul police chief, says an unknown number of gunmen on Sunday attacked the home of Jan Mohammed Khan, a former governor of Uruzgan province and adviser to President Hamid Karzai. There were no immediate reports of casualties, but Stanekzai says a gunbattle is taking place in the western Kabul district of Karti Char. Karzai has dozens of advisers and it was unclear what precise role Khan has.

Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/gunmen-attack-afghan-presidential-1021147.html

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by BetteDam
i jst spoke 2 a friend who s fighting the insurgents he told me tht they just shot one of the suicide bombers & there s still one inside.
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The two suiciders are still alive. and they are firing with the police. the family - wife and children - are inside the compound.
9 minutes ago
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Suiciders entered the guesthouse- compound and started shooting at the two men who were having a meeting. The are wearing bomb-vests...
10 minutes ago
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Haji Masher the secretary of Jan Mohammed confirmed the death of Jan Moh Khan and Watanwal.
11 minutes ago
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If Jan Mohammed is dead this can be - I wld say - related to the killing of Ahmed Wali Karzai. They belonged to the elite 'ruling' the South
24 minutes ago
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When I was on the phone with this journalist, I couldnt here any fighting. Only whispering people and creepy silence.
26 minutes ago
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The journalist is still in the house and he is whispering: "They let nobody inside the house. Police surrounded, I think."
30 minutes ago
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The Journalist was visiting the house of Jan Mohammed. Mohammed Hashem Watanwal (MP) was there as well. "I think they both are killed'.
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WE have one journalist inside the house of Jan MOhammed...
33 minutes ago
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@ElGiraffo Haji Zaher says Jan Mohammed is dead. We are investigating it now.
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First reaction: Haji Zaher (MP) says suiciders entered Jan Mohammed Khans house (former gov Uruzgan) near the parliament. "He is dead".
45 minutes ago

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. twitter feed "Jan Mohammed"

This is big. as big as Karsi's brother's killing.

http://twitter.com/#!/search/%22Jan%20Mohammed%22

[Springer9]

2. How's that surge working out for us?

Got that place under control so we can leave yet?

[Chan790]

3. This, along with the Wali Karzai hit, practically insures the drawdown of troops is dead.

The entire cover-premise for the draw-down was stability. Now that premise is shot dead, we're stuck again...no US regime is going to draw-down without political cover.

My question is Did someone on this side of the Atlantic opposed to draw-down play a role in this? This sort of dirty pool is not out-of-bounds for certain "alphabet-soup" US intel agencies.

[Chan790]

4. Another Feed to follow for latest breaking.

http://twitter.com/#!/CompaneroZohori (Same as V_L_R said, read from bottom-up)

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@mattaikins there were no check points around his house. there was not even a single guard at the main gate of his house
11 minutes ago

Companero Zohori
i wonder what king David is thinking about his last ngith as the head of NATO foces. he must be saying " what the FUck...

. . . (edit: I omitted chatter-Chan790)

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it seems that they resumed shooting. fir exchange can be heard continue sly
14 minutes ago

Companero Zohori
i just heard a burst of shooting maybe more that 20 shots and siren. god knows what is happening outside. and another and another gun shot


Zohori is a journalist on the ground outside JMK's compound tweeting status updates as it's happening. Every firefight exchange and everything he witnesses. Course language. Spotty English.

[alp227]

5. Karzai Adviser Is Killed at Kabul Home

Source: The New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — A close adviser to President Hamid Karzai who had been a fierce foe of the Taliban in Afghanistan’s south was killed Sunday night after a small team of gunmen stormed his walled home here in the capital.

The slain aide, Jan Mohammed Khan, was a former governor of the southern Oruzgan Province who had been one of Mr. Karzai’s trusted allies and a regular presence inside the presidential palace. He was killed alongside a member of Parliament from Oruzgan, Mohammed Hosham Watanwal.

The men’s deaths were confirmed by Gen. Mohammed Zahir, a police official in Kabul.

The killings marked another potentially heavy blow for Mr. Karzai, coming just days after his powerful half-brother was assassinated by a close associate in southern Afghanistan.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/world/asia/18afghanistan.html

[okieinpain]

6. wonder why now. after all this time. n_t.

[DCKit]

8. And what were those two guys up to?

Unseemly for them to be sharing a house.

[lunatica]

9. They've probably tried many times but were unsuccessful

Karsai's half brother was killed by a bodyguard I think. He may have just recently been recruited, or it may a revenge killing for something he did recently. There are any number of possibilities.

[xchrom]

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