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...express his sympathy for those who lost loved ones, and the two leaders committed themselves to a full investigation of the tragedy. But the deaths prompted the first anti-American demonstration in Kabul, the Afghan capital, since the fall of the Taliban. A few days later, Haji Abdul Qadir, a Deputy President in Karzai's government, was killed in his car outside the Ministry of Public Works. Two gunmen, who had been hiding in bushes by the driveway, riddled the car with bullets. Qadir was one of the leading figures of Afghanistan's majority Pashtun community, and his death deals...
...will be in the car soon," Haji Abdul Qadir told his nephew over the phone. "I'm coming in maybe 15 or 20 minutes." But Qadir, one of Afghanistan's five Deputy Presidents, as well as its Minister of Public Works, never made it home for lunch. In fact, he never made it to the street. Witnesses later said that two gunmen had been waiting outside the ministry compound's gates for half an hour. As Qadir's green Toyota Land Cruiser nosed its way out, the men, dressed in the clothing of Qadir's home province, leaped...
...Qadir, one of Afghanistan's most astute and powerful Pashtun politicians, had been a linchpin in President Hamid Karzai's effort to reconcile the country's largest ethnic group with the rest of the nation. His death increases the risk of ethnic division in a nation already suffering from civil violence. His passing also removes a moderate voice from Karzai's government, still struggling to impose its authority across Afghanistan...
...Qadir's death marks the end of an epic of two remarkable brothers. Qadir had been the elder of the two; Abdul Haq, 12 years his junior, had been the favored one. Abdul Haq was a legendary mujahedin hero in the war against the Soviets. In America's battle against the Taliban, he became one of the few Washington selected to eventually lead the country. But Abdul Haq, for all his talents, was unlucky. He lost a foot in a land-mine explosion years ago; he lost his wife and children to Taliban assassins; and finally, last October, he lost...
...ASSASSINATED. HAJI ABDUL QADIR, Vice President and Minister of Public Works in Afghanistan's transitional government; in Kabul. One of three Vice Presidents chosen to serve in the Cabinet of President Hamid Karzai's, Qadir was gunned down in his own car as he left the ministry. Qadir was the brother of rebel commander Abdul Haq, who was killed by the Taliban last year...