This is who we back in Afghanistan
December 22nd, 2009
On
October 16, four
sport utility vehicles barreled into
Karz, Afghanistan, the hometown of the country’s
president, Hamid Karzai, and pulled up to
the home of one of his cousins,
Yar Mohammad
Karzai.
Teams
of armed guards blocked
the street and herded passers-by into
a nearby mosque while seizing their cellphones, then
removed the front door of the house, according to Karzai family
members and several people from the mosque. A man in traditional
white Afghan robes, accompanied by two security guards, walked
inside and found two of Yar Mohammad Karzai’s children,
18-year-old Waheed and his 12-year-old sister,
Sona, doing their schoolwork in
their bedroom.
The girl
later said that she remembered
the robed man raising a pistol and shooting Waheed
three times as she shouted: “Don’t kill my
brother! Don’t kill my
brother!”
she said in a telephone interview
