Taliban issue fatwa urging death for Karzai

SPIN BOLDAK—Taliban have issued a fatwa calling for Hamid Karzai to be killed for serving American and British infidels. The fatwa came in a 12-page Pashto booklet distributed in the south that reiterated a call for jihad, against infidels and their slaves.
It should be remembered that there is no difference between infidels and their agents and jihad against them has become incumbent, the fatwa said. The fatwa was written by three Taliban scholars and approved buy a council of about 100, a Taliban spokesman said. Jihad against all the slaves of Americans and the British including Hamid Karzai has become incumbent and they deserve to be killed, it said. The fatwa described British and Americans as Jewish and Christian infidels who cannot be friends of Muslims.
It also called on Afghan Muslims not to be misled by the infidels’ sweet talk and temptation and to join the Taliban fight to force them to leave Afghanistan. Karzai, who has tried to appeal to Taliban fighters to give up their fight and rejoin society, has survived at least two attempts to kill him. Meanwhile a suicide bomber has blown himself up near a convoy of US-led troops in the main city of volatile southern Afghanistan, wounding up to three passers-by, police and witnesses said. The attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body as the convoy passed near the governor’s house in the centre of Kandahar city, said police official Said Ghafar. “Three civilians have been wounded, one of them badly,” he told Sunday. The attack was similar to one in the city exactly a week earlier when a man blew himself up near another coalition convoy, killing a passer-by and wounding a Canadian soldier and two civilians.
Witnesses to the latest attack said they saw the bomber hurl himself at the first vehicle in the convoy. A coalition Humvee was slightly damaged and splattered with flesh and blood, a correspondent said. The interior ministry said it was not clear who the blast was aimed at and the coalition headquarters in Kabul said it had no information of its forces being involved in an incident in Kandahar. “The attacker has been killed and one of the civilians has been injured,” interior ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanizai said. A witness named Gulalai said the attacker had been wearing a blanket-like Afghan shawl and had been sitting by the roadside for a while before the blast.—Agencies