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KABUL — The suicide bomber who killed the Afghan leader responsible for brokering a deal with insurgents gained access to him after delivering an audio recording that the assassin said contained a message from Taliban leaders, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday.
The message was convincing enough that top officials, including Karzai, urged Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Afghan president, to return to Kabul from a trip abroad because the envoy said he had a second, important audio recording that could be delivered only to Rabbani.
Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, said Thursday that the assassination “raised very serious questions about whether the Taliban and those who support them have any real interest in reconciliation.”
