Anti-Taliban Afghan tribal leader killed in mosque

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Anti-Taliban Afghan tribal leader killed in mosque

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Assailants gunned down a prominent anti-Taliban tribal leader.

17 January,2012 08:05 pm

He was praying in a mosque Tuesday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, authorities said.Armed insurgents entered the mosque Tuesday morning and shot Mohammad Nahim Agha Mama as he worshipped, the Kandahar provincial governors office said in a statement. A Pashtun tribal leader and local council member of the provinces Dand district, Nahim was well known in the province for urging his followers not to join the Taliban.There was no immediate claim of responsibility.The campaign has also targeted senior figures, including former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was killed in September by a suicide attacker with a bomb hidden in his turban.The governors office called Nahims killing an anti-Islamic and antihuman act, saying in a statement that he was doing his best to bring peace and stability, and thats why the enemies are killing those people.Also Tuesday, a suicide car bomber slammed into the entrance of a military base jointly run by NATO and Afghan troops in eastern Afghanistan, wounding three Afghan private security guards, officials in Nangarhar province said.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack at the base in Ghani Kail district. A statement from insurgent spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed the bomb killed 17 American troops.Provincial spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said no one was killed but the attacker.