Kandahar Province: catch all thread

[davidbfpo]

The BBC is reporting:

The half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been assassinated in Kandahar, officials say.

Ahmad Wali Karzai, a leading power broker in the country's south, was shot dead at his home in a blow to Nato's battle against the Taliban in the area.

He was shot twice by his long-time head of security Sardar Mohammed, who was himself killed almost immediately.

Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14118884

Given the lack of updates on this thread I am unsure if anything much happened in Kandahar city itself and there was a comment by an ANP officer the insurgency had been it's worst recently.

Added later, SWJ item:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=13770