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July 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mohammad Nawab Sherzai, criminal investigations director in the province, said
the killer had arrived among guests from the nearby city of Mazar-i-Sharif
and had managed to get very close to his target before detonating.
“It was a big explosion. There were bloody bodies all around the first
floor. The explosion was so strong. There were people even on the third
floor who were wounded,” he told the AP news agency.
“Everybody was running in different directions. For about 10 minutes,
nobody knew what was happening,” he said. “There was dark smoke
all around. After about 10 minutes, the people were able to see the bodies
and start helping with the wounded.”
Mr Samangani was a close deputy of Gen Abdul Rashid Dostum, the Afghan Uzbek
leader and strongman who was a prominent warlord of the Northern Alliance
which helped sweep the Taliban from power in 2001.
Gen Dostum remains a prominent figure in the north and is a leader of the
Nation Front bloc set up in opposition to the president Hamid Karzai.
Tensions have run high between Gen Dostum’s supporters and Kabul as the two
have clashed in recent months over who should benefit from oil deposits in
the area.
A number of former Northern Alliance leaders have also been assassinated by
suicide bombers in the past 18 months, including Gen Daud Daud, chief of
police in the Afghan north, and Abdul Rahman Syedkhili, police chief in
Kunduz.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban movement, said: “We don’t
have a hand in this.
“Ahmad Khan [Samangani] was a former commander of the Mujahideen, he was
notorious and many people could have had problems with him,” he told
Reuters news agency.
He may have had many enemies other than the Taliban, said Waheed Muzhda, a
Kabul-based political analyst.
“Former warlords have frequently been targeted in the past. Ahmad Khan Samangani
was a strongman in terms of security for Samangan province. His loss will
certainly affect security in that region.”
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