Abdullah Laghmani

Abdullah Laghmani ( Persian عبدالله لقمانی; * 1960s; † September 2, 2009 in Mehtarlam , Afghanistan ) was deputy Afghan intelligence chief.

Before he took over the second highest rank in the Afghan secret service , Laghmani was the head of the secret service for Kandahar , a former stronghold of the Taliban . He fought on the side of the US alliance when the Americans invaded in 2001 .

Abdullah Laghmani was considered a close confidante of President Hamid Karzai and played a very important role in Afghanistan's western-oriented security and intelligence service to fight the Taliban and other extremists in the country. In his last role, he ordered reconnaissance operations mainly in eastern Afghanistan and appointed local security officers in the area.

On September 2, 2009, as a result of a suicide attack by the Taliban in Mehtarlam, the capital of Laghman Province , which was considered relatively safe at the time , he died when a bomb exploded while leaving a mosque. This was interpreted in the media as an omnipresent threat from the Taliban and also described as a setback for Hamid Karzai's political efforts. With Laghmani, 23 other people died in the attack, including the chairman of the provincial council and other members of the government. There were more than 50 injured.

Web links

• Afghan spy boss killed in Taliban suicide attack. In: St. Augustine. Retrieved September 3, 2009 . 
• Taliban kill deputy chief of intelligence in Afghanistan. In: Spiegel.de. Retrieved September 3, 2009 . 
• Afghan intelligence chief Abdullah Laghmani killed in suicide attack. In: Times Online. Retrieved September 3, 2009 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deputy Chief of Intelligence Is Slain in Afghanistan , The New York Times. September 2, 2009. “Mr. Laghmani, who was in his 40s, served ... "