Taliban charm offensive: another Misunderstander of Islam reads Qur’an 9:111 and fails to notice that Islam forbids suicide. From Reuters (thanks to JE):
A SUICIDE bomber killed an Afghan district chief and three of his family members today in their home in the southern city of Kandahar, witnesses and a police said.
Khairuddin Kaka, the district chief for Zerai, one of his teenage daughters and two of his sons were killed when the bomber blew explosives attached to his body, they said.
“The bomber knocked at the door of Kaka’s house and blew himself up after the door was opened,” said a policeman who witnessed the attack.