Afghan leader not cowed by rocket attack: spokesman
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has no plans to restrict his travel or beef up personal security after surviving a third assassination attempt in a rocket attack outside the capital, a presidential spokesman said on Monday.
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Afghanistan&#39;s interim President Hamid Karzai returned to Kabul Thursday after a rocket attack happened about a mile away from where his helicopter was to land for a road opening ceremony in Gardez, his press office said.
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President Hamid Karzai escaped a rocket attack on the U.S. helicopter carrying him to a provincial capital in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said, in the second apparent attempt to assassinate the U.S.-backed interim leader since he took office in 2001.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai had to abort a rare campaign rally Thursday in this town southeast of the capital when a rocket was fired over his helicopter as it began to land.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday condemned the deaths of 10 civilians shot by U.S. troops after an attack on their convoy over the weekend in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan  - Afghan President Hamid  Karzai aborted an election campaign trip to the southeastern  province of Gardez on Thursday after a rocket exploded just  before he was due to land by helicopter.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - The governor of Afghanistan's most important southern province escaped unscathed from a roadside bomb on Monday, but three civilians were wounded in the attack, his office said in a statement.
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KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped an assassination bid on Thursday when a rocket was fired at his US military helicopter as it was landing in the southeastern town of Gardez, Reuters news service reported.
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Afghan rebel leader and al Qaeda ally Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Thursday denied he had declared a ceasefire in his battle against Afghanistan's government, a spokesman said.
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KABUL : A rocket landed near a school in southeast Afghanistan minutes before President Hamid Karzai was due to visit, forcing him to abandon his trip, presidential spokesman Jawad Ludin told AFP.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Assailants fired a rocket at an American helicopter taking President Hamid Karzai on a rare foray into Afghanistan's troubled provinces yesterday, but it missed and he escaped injury.
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President Hamid Karzai took the helm yesterday of a country whose revival is threatened by a growing opium trade and a persistent Taliban insurgency, pledging to bring stability and prosperity to Afghanistan even as rebels made attacks near the Pakistani
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Pakistan supports Afghan President Hamid Karzai but democratic polls in its neighbor will not influence Pakistan's political processes, President Pervez Musharraf said in remarks published here.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai made only his second successful campaign stop outside the safety of the capital on Tuesday, telling a crowd of 10,000 people that historic elections this weekend will deliver them from a quarter-century of war.
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President Hamid Karzai abandoned a trip to a city in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday after a rocket hit near the landing site as his helicopter approached, officials said.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told his supporters to vote without fear at a rally in a Kabul stadium the Taliban once used for beheadings.
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Police attempting to keep a restless crowd from entering a capacity-filled stadium fired their guns into the air on Sunday while Afghan President Hamid Karzai quickly wrapped up his speech inside, a military official said.