Senior Afghan policewoman shot dead.

[Connaught Ranger]

Senior Afghan policewoman shot dead.
Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:22:51 GMT


Unknown gunmen have shot dead a senior Afghan policewoman in front of her house in the southern city of Kandahar, officials say.

Malalai Kakar, head of the city's department on crimes against women, was attacked as she was leaving her home for work.

"Today between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. when she was (in her car) outside her house and going to her job, some gunmen attacked," Kandahar government spokesman Zalmay Ayoobi said Sunday.

Attackers opened fire on her car and Kakar, the mother of six, was killed on the spot. Her son was also badly injured.

No groups have claimed the responsibility for the attack.

Kakar, known for her courage, had reportedly received several death threats.

HE/BGH

+ R.I.P. + to the victim.

Connaught Ranger

[Bushranger]

RIP, sad that they cant accept a women in a position of authority.

[bearfirefighter]

My thoughts and prayers to her family, hope they find the motherF!@#$%^&

Bear

[Imshi-Yallah]

A sign of the need for right minded people in the West to redouble their efforts in this war between reason and madness.

R.I.P to the victim, the greatest memorial would be the triumph of humanism and egalitarianism over the mechanisms that give the unfit ultimate power over life or death in Afghanistan

[Calanen]

RIP.

Here's an article from Marie Clair about her, she was a Lt Col in the Afghan Police.
Kandahar's Top Cop is a Woman

The Taliban leave death threats on her door at night. But for Malalai Kakar, Kandahar's top cop, fear is not an option.

By Dina Temple-Raston

It is morning in Kandahar, and the streets are full of Taliban. They wear white or black turbans, long beards, and charcoal eyeliner, and drive Toyota pickup trucks, roaring through intersections, narrowly missing street vendors' carts, acting like they own the place-which, in a way, they do. Five years after the Americans forced the Taliban from power, they are reemerging. In fact, they never really surrendered so much as melted away-disappearing into their homes and the hills, waiting for the day when the world would forget about Afghanistan.

On one such street, Malalai Kakar, 40, is getting her six children ready for school: buttoning jackets, tugging T-shirts over heads. While they await their mother's help, Malalai's children take turns tearing pieces from a thin pancake filled with green onions placed on a table in the room where they gather. Older children brush the locks of the younger ones; girls braid each other's hair. Preparations completed, Malalai opens the door and watches her children disappear down the lane toward school. Then she pushes the door shut and locks it.

Alone in the house, Malalai walks quickly to a room in back and grabs an AK-47 that's leaning against a wall. She takes a box of ammunition from the shelf and begins slipping bullets into a banana clip, listening to the click as each cartridge snaps into place. She checks the safety catch and looks at her watch. There's a knock on the door. It is Malalai's brother, who has driven her to work every day for five years now. He is her protection, ensuring that they never take the same route two days in a row. Malalai disappears beneath a powder-blue burka, holding her AK-47, now partially concealed, close to her side. She slips out the door.

Despite her covert actions, Malalai is neither vigilante nor gangster. In Afghanistan, she is something considerably more dangerous: the first woman to attend-and graduate from-the Kandahar Police Academy, and the first to become an investigator with the Kandahar Police Department. Such historic events, which could be lauded as proof of just how far women have come in Afghanistan, are also the reason why Malalai lives in a constant state of siege. Most mornings, before her children wake, she peeks out her front door to look for a "night letter"-a death threat from the Taliban pinned to her home that she doesn't want her children to see. "The notes say things like 'Quit the force, or else,'" she says, with a thin smile. "Of course, I won't."

Inside the Kandahar Police Department, a square, concrete building with tiny windows, Malalai heads for the squad room, where she removes her burka and straightens her uniform. She wears a crisp navy-blue safari shirt with the sleeves rolled up and matching canvas pants gathered in folds around her hips, held up by a thick black belt. Clearly, the Kandahar Police Department never planned on providing a uniform for someone with a 24-inch waist. Against her bone-thin, five-foot frame, the 9-mm pistol strapped to her hip looks comically large.

Kandahar is, hands-down, one of the world's scariest cities. In spite of the U.S. and NATO street patrols, the Taliban seem to be everywhere. "They come out almost every night now," says Malalai. "They're responsible for drive-by shootings, bombings at police posts, and the daily mortaring of a NATO base outside town." Residents are on edge. Foreigners keep to themselves and live behind high walls with armed guards. Police at checkpoints look jumpy, and men with submachine guns wander the hotels. Nearly everyone on the street carries a weapon.

Rest here: http://www.marieclaire.com/world/news/kandahar-cop

[Ian58861]

RIP Senior Police woman.

[11 Bravo]

Typical MO of a cowardly lot.Let's see...find the assailants names and whack some of their families , justice me thinks.

[muck]

She was a brave woman to serve her country under these conditions. Rest in Peace.

[Zombie Squad]

RIP for bravery.

[Supe]

That marie claire article is hardcore. Women get such a raw deal in that country.

[LoboCanada]

R.I.P. Afghanistan needs more of these courageous and brave women.

[Atlantic Friend]

No groups have claimed the responsibility for the attack.

"Bravery" at is Taliban finest. "Brave" enough to shoot at a car with a woman and her kids, but not even the balls to admit it.

[Karaahmetoglu]

Rest In Peace,


Allah Rahmet Eleysin,

[Hilbert]

R.I.P.
Hope the cowards responsible meet a permanent end soon.

[Analyst45]

RIP, hope these cowards meet a lingering end.

Typical MO of a cowardly lot.Let's see...find the assailants names and whack some of their families , justice me thinks.

With all respect, not sure a KGB-style solution is the way to go however.