Karzai&#39;s deputy targeted
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Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate in the Afghan presidential election narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by the Taliban yesterday in the latest bid to derail Saturday&#39;s poll.
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Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Sunday appointed two warlords, formerly in his Cabinet, to influential governorships in an attempt to keep the strongmen happy _ but out of his central government.
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President Hamid Karzai chose a new Cabinet on Thursday, heeding calls to sideline warlords from top positions - including the defense minister - and creating a new post to oversee the fight against opium production.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A convoy carrying Vice President Nematullah Shahrani was attacked by remote-control explosives yesterday in northern Afghanistan, just four days after a rocket was fired at President Hamid Karzai's helicopter as it was landing at a school in southern Afghanistan.
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A convoy carrying Afghan President Hamid Karzaiâs vice presidential running-mate came under attack today in north-eastern Afghanistan, the presidential palace said.
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President Hamid Karzai has chosen a new Cabinet, heeding calls to sideline warlords from top positions -- including the defense minister -- and creating a new post to oversee the fight against opium production, government officials said Thursday.
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The likely runner-up in Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential election alleged on Monday that the vote was marred by cheating, as President Hamid Karzai appeared
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Hamid Karzai named a new Cabinet on Thursday, sacking the prominent defense minister and removing other warlords from top posts in a major reshuffle weeks after being sworn in as the nation&#39;s first democratically elected
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Hamid Karzai also tells CNN that the al-Qaida leader will be caught because, as he put it, âhe can&#39;t run forever.&#39;&#39;.
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A deputy to U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai escaped a roadside bombing in northern Afghanistan on Monday, just four days after Karzai himself was targeted as he tried to hit the campaign trail for landmark Oct. 9 elections.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned U.S. troops for shooting dead 10 civilians at the weekend as officials said nine more -- five women, four children and an old man -- had been killed in an air strike.
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President Karzai's rival gains ground by appealing to Afghanistan's former anti-Soviet resistance fighters.
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Threatened by the Taliban, surrounded by security forces and watched by the second tier of the Bush administration, Hamid Karzai is due to be inaugurated as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president this morning.
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Gardez (Afghanistan), Sept. 16 : Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped an assassination bid today when a rocket was fired at his US military helicopter as it was landing in the southeastern town of Gardez.
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In July, Afghan President Hamid Karzai ditched his vice-president, Marshal Mohammad Fahim, one of the countryâs most powerful warlords.
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KABUL : Two men were killed when a bomb exploded as they were planting it outside a regional electoral campaign office of Afghanistan&#39;s US-backed President Hamid Karzai, an official said.
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The Afghan government on Thursday blamed drug smugglers -- not Taliban or al-Qaida fighters -- for a bomb attack on interim leader Hamid Karzai&#39;s vice presidential