ANOTHER TALIBAN MURDER TO STOP ANY CHANCE OF PEACE

TALIBAN MURDER FORMER PRESIDENT RABBANI
CHIEF OF 'PEACE COUNCIL' WAS WORKING TO END CONFLICT
KILLED BY MESSENGER WITH 'TURBAN BOMB'

The possibility of negotiating an end to the conflict in Afghanistan seems much less likely today, after a Taliban suicide bomber used a bomb hidden inside a turban to assassinate former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, a respected official now working as part of the "High Peace Council"

"Other members of the High Peace Council said the bomber had been vetted as a messenger who was said to have information for Mr. Rabbani and had been escorted into Mr. Rabbani’s heavily guarded home....

....The bomber was not searched as a sign of trust, the Peace Council members said. He embraced Mr. Rabbani, then detonated his explosives, killing Mr. Rabbani and seriously wounding at least three other people..."