Ahmad Wali Karzai

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Ahmad Wali Karzai (2010)

Ahmad Wali Karzai ( Persian احمد ولی کرزای; Nickname: King of Kandahar ; * 1961 in Karz ; † July 12, 2011 in Kandahar ) was an Afghan politician . He was the half-brother of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai .

Life

exile

After the Red Army invaded in 1979, which marked the beginning of the Soviet-Afghan War, he and his family went into exile in the United States , where they ran restaurants in San Francisco , Boston , Chicago and Baltimore .

In the mid-1990s he moved to Pakistan to set up troops with Hamid Karzai against the Taliban.

Political career in Afghanistan

After Hamid Karzai was appointed Afghan President in late 2001, Ahmad Wali Karzai was elected chairman of the Kandahar Provincial Council in 2005. He was considered one of the most powerful Afghans and for many was a symbol of the corruption and nepotism in Afghanistan. He has been accused of being involved in drug trafficking and working for the CIA .

He took part in the Loja Jirgas in 2002 and 2004 as a representative of Kandahar Province .

His militia, known as the Kandahar Strike Force , was co-financed by NATO .

In early 2009, four suicide bombers stormed Karzai's office and killed 13 people. He himself escaped the attack because he had left the office shortly before.

Ahmad Wali Karzai survived an attack by the Taliban on his vehicle convoy in May 2009, in which one of his bodyguards was killed.

death

He was murdered in Kandahar on July 12, 2011. The Taliban took over, according to their spokesman Kari Jussif Ahmadi , the responsibility for the act. They claim that one of Karzai's bodyguards, who is believed to have been his confidante, killed Karzai on their behalf, but the exact circumstances are unclear. Kandahar Province Governor Toryalai Weesa said he was shot dead by one of his bodyguards who had served the family for ten years. The two are said to have been alone in a room when Karzai was killed at eleven p.m. with two shots in the chest and head. The bodyguard was then killed in a firefight. At the time, there were numerous local politicians on the property waiting for an audience with Karzai.

During a memorial service for Karzai on July 14 in the Sara Jama Mosque in Kandahar, a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing at least four people, including one of the country's most important Islamic clerics.

family

Karzai had two sons and three daughters.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Agnes Tandler: Bombs, assassinations, fights, murders. In: the daily newspaper . July 29, 2011, accessed August 1, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Symbol for nepotism. In: ORF . July 12, 2011, accessed July 12, 2011 .
  3. ↑ a b Friederike Böge: The secret ruler of Kandahar. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 12, 2011, accessed July 13, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Karzai's half-brother shot in Kandahar. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 12, 2011, accessed July 13, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Agnes Tandler: The lightning rod is no longer alive. In: the daily newspaper. July 12, 2011, accessed July 13, 2011 .
  6. ↑ a b c President Karzai's half-brother dies in an assassination attempt. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. July 12, 2011, accessed July 13, 2011 .
  7. ↑ The Taliban had Karzai's brother killed. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . July 12, 2011, accessed July 12, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Apparently a confidante shot Karzai's brother. In: Focus . July 12, 2011, accessed July 12, 2011 .
  9. ^ Attack at the funeral service for Karzai's half-brother. In: ORF. July 14, 2011, accessed July 14, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Karzai, Ahmad Wali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Karz
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 2011
Place of death Kandahar