Afghan President Escapes Rocket Attack
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KABUL (Afghanistan): Afghanistan&#39;s President aborted a trip to a school after a rocket exploded just before his helicopter was due to land on Friday.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate in Saturday&#39;s presidential election escaped unhurt when a bomb exploded near his convoy in the northern city of Faizabad.
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An Afghan vice president and cabinet minister escaped a bomb attack in the north of the country today, while one of their bodyguards was injured, the Associated Press reported.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants trained a barrage of rockets on President Hamid Karzai yesterday as he spoke with a group of elders in central Afghanistan, narrowly missing him.
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The President of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, escapes unhurt after an attempted knife attack.
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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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A rocket slammed into the ground near where Afghan President Hamid Karzai's helicopter was approaching to land in an eastern city Thursday, forcing him to return to Kabul, officials said.
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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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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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A deputy to Afghanistan&#39;s president, Hamid Karzai, escaped a roadside bombing in northern Afghanistan on Monday, just four days after a rocket was fired at Karzai&#39;s helicopter as he was heading to a campaign event for the Oct. 9 elections.
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THE Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, campaigned outside Kabul yesterday for the first time since surviving an assassination attempt last month, telling cheering supporters that Saturdayâs election would be a turning point for the war-torn nation.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan  - Afghan President Hamid  Karzai escaped an assassination bid on Thursday when a rocket  was fired at his U.S. military helicopter as it was landing in  the southeastern town of Gardez.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai Sunday made his first domestic trip outside the capital, Kabul, since a trip cut short by a rocket attack 10 days ago.
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A rocket exploded in the air above the US military compound in Kabul on Friday, the eve of Afghanistan&#39;s presidential poll, but there were no casualties, a spokesman for the international peacekeeping force said.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate for Saturday&#39;s historic presidential election escaped unhurt Wednesday when a mine exploded under his convoy in the remote northeast of the country.
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President Hamid Karzai scrapped a trip to a provincial capital in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday after a rocket hit near his helicopter landing site, the US military said.
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A convoy carrying Vice President Nematullah Shahrani was attacked by remote-control explosives Monday in northern Afghanistan, just four days after an assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai.