KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — For seven years, Rahim Baz Mohammad was an Afghan police detective on a spectacularly perilous beat — a province sitting directly between the capital and Taliban strongholds to the south and east.
His case files bulged with kidnappings and murders. Recent victims included a government reform official shot to death in front of his house. In another case, a deputy provincial governor was killed when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden rickshaw into his convoy.
This month, after various threats on his own life by anonymous callers, Mohammad turned in his badge and locked himself inside his house.
"There are lots of assassinations here," he …

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