Motorbike Assassins Kill Afghan Counter-Terror Official

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Source: AFP

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban gunmen riding motorbikes assassinated an Afghan counter-terror officer Saturday in Kandahar, the birth place of the hardline Islamist militia in southern Afghanistan, police said.

The officer was sitting in a shop when the attackers opened fire, killing him and wounding a shopkeeper before making a quick getaway, deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Shah Farooqi told AFP.

The Taliban carried out the attack, militia spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP by telephone from an unknown location.

Kandahar is the birth place of the Taliban movement and one of the provinces worst affected by their insurgency against the new Western-backed administration and the 113,000 US and NATO troops based in the country.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Proving the point.

Not that it was needed.