Kandahar Mayor Killed in Suicide Attack

"US citizen Ghulam Haidar Hamidi, anaccountant in Virginia for 30 years before moving back to Afghanistan to take the appointed position, was killed as one of the men at the meeting detonated a bomb hidden in his turban. The elders were angry with Hamidi after his administration bulldozed 'illegal' shops and homes, killing a woman and two children. Some 100 people were in front of the mayor’s office protesting the demolitions when the attack took place."