'US-led war in Afghanistan far from over'

Police blames Taliban for the incident and says five key government officials were also killed in the explosion inside the house.

Press TV has interviewed with Richard Becker, from the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition to share his opinion on this issue.

Press TV: Why do you think Burhanuddin Rabbani was assassinated and who do you think would benefit from this?

Becker: Well it is a matter of some speculation I think at this point. But the assassination of Rabbani to take it together with the assassination of Hamid Karzai's brother and other top officials over the last two months and take that together with the attack in the central Kabul last week, the rising casualties at both sides, all indicate to us very clearly that far from a war there is winding down or nearing conclusion or nearing resolution that the war in Afghanistan is escalating as we approach, it is just a month now from today, the tenth anniversary and it really indicates I think very clearly that the only solution to this is for an end to the occupation of Afghanistan .

Press TV: Mr. Rabbani was against a military pact between Washington and Kabul. How would his illumination essentially affect these talks between the US and Afghanistan over the US military presence, as you also mentioned?

Becker: Well there is also, difficult to say what the exact outcome will be. Rabbani himself had a very checkered career to put it mildly and that is he was the president, he refused to step down the rotating presidency after the progressive government in Afghanistan was over throne in 1992. That led to a civil war, they claimed minimally fifty thousand lives.

Now it has been rehabilitated by the United States and during the occupation after he had become a leader of the Northern Alliance. He was then rehabilitated by the United States and I think it seems clearly by many people in Afghanistan as an enemy of the Afghan people. So there has been a trying to negotiate and it has been pulled into negotiations with the idea that he was going to be a go- between the government in Kabul and the Taliban movement but it seems highly likely, that in fact his assassination was carried out by the Taliban.