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News Wrap: Kandahar Mayor Assassinated in Suicide Bombing

Clip: 7/27/2011 | 4m 27s

News Wrap: Kandahar Mayor Assassinated in Suicide Bombing

In other news Wednesday, the mayor of Kandahar was assassinated in southern Afghanistan when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a heavily fortified government compound. Also, the prime minister of Norway announced that an independent commission would investigate how last week's terror attacks were able to happen.

07/27/2011

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