Suicide Attack Kills Burhan-ul-den Rabbani

It is 9/20/2011, midnight in South Korea. I’m back from the library and as I open my facebook page, I see the news saying that Afghanistan Head of High Peace Council, former President Burhan-ul-den Rabbai, who had been tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to the war but has faced total failures was killed earlier today 

Burhan-ul-den Rabbaini 'with the turban'

The media says his home is in Kabul’s heavily guarded diplomatic enclave, and the attack came just a week after a 20-hour siege at the edge of the area sometimes known as the ‘Green Zone’.

Rabbani has been killed, “Mohammad Zaher, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Kabul Police, has told the media”. It has happened just a few hours ago and so far there is no further information about it.

Rabbani was formerly leader of a powerful Mujaheddin party during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and sevred as president in the 1990s when Mujaheddin factions waged war for control of the country after the Soviet withdrawal. During him time, before 2001, he was involved in all the tribal wars in the country leading his own political party ‘Afghanistan's Islamic Society’

The assassination happens just a week after a 20-hour gun and grenade attack that on Kabul’s diplomatic enclave by insurgents, and three suicide bomb attacks on other parts of the city together the longest-lasting and most wide-ranging assault on the city. (my earlier post ‘Jan Ali’ is about the previous attack in this area)..... 

As this news spreads around, people might have different discussions regarding it. Some might be somehow depressed while some others might have better feelings about it since Rabbani was one of the coordinators of some of the wars in between the ethnic groups back in late 90s after his presidency!

But no matter what people's ideas might be, even if it is not a bad news in particular, in general it is a terrifying news for all the residents of the country as Taliban are invading in the very center of Kabul city lately.