2006年VOA标准英语-Gunmen Assassinate Taleban Defector

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By Benjamin Sand
Islamabad
15 January 2006

 
Khaksar holds half of a five rupee Pakistani note he gave to a US official in April 1999 seeking assistance to defeat Taliban (File photo - June 9, 2002)
  
The Taleban says it has killed one of its former leaders who renounced¹ the group that ruled Afghanistan until it was ousted² by U.S.-led forces in 2001. Mullah Abdul Samad Khaksar was a vocal³ critic of the Taleban insurgency⁴ and Osama bin⁵ Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.

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Former Taleban intelligence chief and deputy interior minister Mullah Abdul Samad Khaksar was killed Saturday afternoon near his home in Kandahar.

Taleban spokesmen are claiming responsibility for the killing⁶.

But Kandahar police chief, Abdul Wahidi, says the case is still under investigation⁷.

He says witnesses saw two men riding motorcycles shoot Khaksar as he was walking home from a nearby market.

In 2001, Khaksar defected to the Afghan army after a U.S.-led coalition⁸ ousted the militant⁹ Taleban regime for harboring al Qaida terrorists.

In September, he ran an unsuccessful campaign for Afghanistan's new parliament. U.S. and Afghan authorities have condemned¹⁰ the killing.