Bad News

Taliban kill the Afghan intelligence chief.

DEPUTY CHIEF OF INTELLIGENCE IS SLAIN IN AFGHANISTAN: The second-ranking intelligence official in Afghanistan was killed by a suicide bomber on Wednesday morning, in an explosion that killed at least 15 other people outside the main mosque here in the officials hometown, officials and witnesses said. The intelligence official, Abdullah Laghmani, was the deputy director of Afghanistans National Directorate for Security and a prominent ally of President Hamid Karzai. Afghan officials and colleagues conceded that his death was a severe blow to the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

I hope he trained someone to replace himself.