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Afghanistan’s intelligence chief target of underwear bomber

Troops in Afghanistan via AFP

The suicide bomber who tried to assassinate Afghanistan’s spy chief detonated a bomb hidden in his underwear, the intelligence agency said Friday. Asadullah Khalid, who heads the National Directorate of Security (NDS), was targeted by a bomber posing as a Taliban peace envoy in a spy agency guesthouse in the…

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New Afghan spy chief accused of corruption and torture

Asadullah Khalid, then Kandahar provincial governor, unseals a ballot box for counting to start in a September 2005 election via AFP

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has nominated a cabinet minister to head the country’s spy agency who has been accused of involvement in torture, drug-trafficking and corruption. Asadullah Khalid, the minister for borders and a one-time governor of the Taliban-troubled province of Kandahar, must be approved by a parliamentary vote before…

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