Blast Kills Chief Of Peace Council In Afghanistan.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An assassin with explosives hidden in his turban was ushered into the home of the head of Afghanistan's peace process on Tuesday, embraced him and then exploded the bomb, killing him and dealing a potentially devastating blow to the effort to reconcile with the Taliban and end 10 years of war. The assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani, the leader of Afghanistan's High Peace Council and a former president, on the heels of a carefully planned attack on the American Embassy a week ago, underscored the fierce opposition of those who want to shatter the country's tenuous stability and thwart its tentative steps toward peace. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]