Taliban Spy Chief Killed

KABUL, Wednesday - The intelligence chief of Afghanistan’s former Taliban regime, Qari Ahmadullah, was killed along with up to 50 of his men in a US bombing raid, an Afghan government official said Wednesday. Intelligence officials in Afghanistan’s new interim government said Ahmadullah died during a US bombing raid on Katawaz district in Ghazni province on Monday. “Qari Ahmadullah was killed along with between 40 to 50 men in their headquarters in Katawaz district when American planes bombed the building,” said Azimullah, an intelligence officer based in Kabul. “We have received this information from our own sources, rather than through American channels,” he told AFP. Ahmadullah was the Taliban’s first interior minister after Kabul fell to the Islamic militia’s forces in 1996.He was also responsible for bribing anti-Taliban commanders to desert the ranks of the Northern Alliance opposition. AFPEnds