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Ghulam Haidar Hamidi, mayor of Kandahar city, speaks during a news conference in Kandahar in this undated photo.
Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011

Open quoteHe was trying to rebuild Kandahar. Close quote

  • TOORYALAI WESA,
  • provincial governor of Kandahar, on the assassination of the city's mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi by a Taliban suicide bomber; it was the third killing of a high-profile official in Afghanistan this month
Photo: REUTERS / Ahmad Nadeem | Source: NYT