Ghulam Haider Hamidi
Sharwal Ghulam Haider Hamidi | |
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غلام حیدر حمیدی | |
Mayor of Kandahar | |
In office February 2006 – 27 July 2011 | |
Succeeded by | Muhammad Nasim Naseem (interim) |
Personal details | |
Born | 1947 Afghan-American |
Alma mater | Kabul University |
Occupation | Mayor, accountant |
Ghulam Haider Hamidi (
Hamidi graduated from Kabul University with a degree in finance.[3] He spent a brief period in Pakistan and lived in the United States for almost nineteen years. He settled in the Washington, D.C. area, and worked as an accountant at Trans Am Travel, a wholesale travel agency in Alexandria, Virginia.[4] In 2007, he returned to Afghanistan when the country was under the Karzai administration.[1]
In the late afternoon of 26 July 2011 a plot was discovered by the SFA Team 5 that there was an active plot to assassinate Hamidi by a turban bomb. The team thwarted the attack that day. The team was not present the following morning on 27 July 2011. Hamidi was killed at the municipal building in Kandahar on the morning of July 27, 2011 by a man who had hidden explosives inside his turban. As Hamidi greeted elders in the morning as he often did a man reached up and touched two wires together setting off the explosives killing himself and Hamidi. The
Two other associates of
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