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Suicide Bomber Kills Afghan Government Reconciliation Czar | The chief of the Afghan government’s High Peace Council, Burhanuddin Rabbani, died at his home when a messenger detonated a suicide bomb after an embrace. Rabbani led efforts aimed at reconciling the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai with the Taliban insurgency to bring an end to the 10-year war that has ravaged the Central Asian nation. “This is not good for the peace process,” Shukria Barakzai, a member of parliament, told the New York Times. High Peace Council members told the Times that the messenger had arrived with a trusted former minister of the Taliban government who was in talks with Rabbani.