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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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb exploded yesterday afternoon under a convoy carrying one of President Hamid Karzai's two running mates in the upcoming presidential election. The attack, in remote Badakshan Province, killed one man and injured five others, including a former Badakshan governor.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s main rival, his former Education Minister Mohammad Yunus Qanuni, has formed a political party to contest the April parliamentary election.
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show however they will be briefed that a person related to Kabul will be coming in.
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Three suspected Taliban members have been  arrested for trying to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai by  firing a rocket at his helicopter during his first election  campaign trip outside Kabul, officials said on Friday.
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One of four U.S. military officers in Afghanistan alleged to have murdered a local man they believed was following their movements was issued an official reprimand.
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Afghan officials say they have arrested three suspects in connection with a rocket attack on a helicopter carrying President Hamid Karzai.
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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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Thugs attacked and beat Afghanistan's attorney-general, a critic of some of the country's factional leaders and former warlords, on a road north of Kabul on Friday, an aide to the attorney-general said. A group of men stopped Abdul Jabar Sabet's car on Friday morning at a road block and hit him with clubs and rifle butts after he got out of the vehicle, said the aide.
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An afghan electoral worker counts Yunus Qanooni&#39;s ballots papers at the counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Oct. 18.
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THE Taleban yesterday threatened to launch attacks during todayâs swearing in of Hamid Karzai as Afghan president. The inauguration was set to take place at Mr Karzaiâs fortress-like palace in Kabul, with
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Three suspects Taliban members have been  arrested for trying to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai by  firing a rocket at his helicopter during his first election  campaign trip outside Kabul, officials said on Friday.
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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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The pitfalls of the governmentâs use of informants with questionable backgrounds are illustrated by the case of an Afghan drug lord and Taliban ally.
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The Taliban warned on Monday its fighters will launch attacks to disrupt the swearing in ceremony of President Hamid Karzai to be attended by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A convoy carrying the running mate to Afghan President Hamid Karzai came under attack in the northeastern part of the country, just days before landmark elections.
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Personnel from a private U.S. security firm in Afghanistan have engaged in "aggressive behavior" while protecting President Hamid Karzai, the State Department said Wednesday.