Mohammad masoom stanekzai biography of barack obama

  • War on the Taliban, and why it initially appeared successful, but became disappointing as the war continued; (2) to look at the Obama.
  • Burhanuddin Rabbani (pictured left), a former Afghan president, was killed in a suicide attack at his Kabul home on Tuesday.
  • Afghanistan, like Masoom Stanekzai, may never be fully repaired.

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    Ex-Afghan president slain in his Kabul home

    A suicide angrepp with a bomb in his turban posed as a Taliban peace envoy and assassinated a former Afghan president who for the past year headed a government council seeking a political settlement with the insurgents.

    Tuesday's attack, carried out in former President Burhanuddin Rabbani's Kabul home, dealt a harsh blow to attempts at ending a decade of war. The killing of Rabbani, an ethnic Tajik and one of the wise old men of Afghan politics, will blunt efforts to keep in check the regional and ethnic rivalries that help feed the insurgency.

    President Hamid Karzai cut short a visit to the United Nations and called on Afghans to remain unified in the face of Rabbani's "martyrdom." An emergency Cabinet meeting was called for Wednesday.

    The attack came days after a daytime assault bygd insurgents on the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters that deepened a sense of insecurity in the capital.

    NATO said in a statement that two suicide b

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    Many Afghans worry that American policy will once again give up on their country.

    Two boys in the Afghan village of Zana Khan. / Michael Hirsh

    KABUL, Afghanistan--Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai limped into the room on a cane and sat down with a smile. We inquired about his health. "I am under repair," he said. "It will never be the way it used to be." Stanekzai, the Cambridge University-educated head of the Afghanistan Peace and Reconciliation Program, was in this same room last September, in the sprawling home of  former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, when a Taliban pretending to be interested in peace talks arrived. The Taliban had a bomb concealed in his turban and promptly blew himself up. Rabbani, the head of the government's peace talk efforts, was killed. Stanekzai was badly wounded.

    On Thursday, in a meeting with visiting reporters, Stanekzai sat across from Rabbani's eldest son, Salahuddin, an earnest, English-speaking young man like so many of the elite young men