Afghan VP&#39;s convoy attacked
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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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U.S. and Afghan government forces   attacked an insurgent stronghold in the southern province of   Uruzgan on Monday, killing more than 40 of them, the U.S.   military said.
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BARIKAW, Afghanistan  -- An explosives-rigged minivan crashed into a convoy of Marines that U.S. officials said also came under fire from militant gunmen Sunday. As many as 10 people were killed and 34 wounded as the convoy made a frenzied escape, and injured Afghans said the Americans fired on civilian cars and pedestrians as they sped away....
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A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy carrying foreigners near the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, a police officer said. Two foreigners and four Afghans were wounded, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
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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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The U.S. military in Afghanistan said on Sunday 16 Afghan civilians were killed after a "complex" Taliban ambush on a U.S. convoy involving a suicide car-bomb attack and militant gunfire.
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KHOST, Afghanistan  - Six Afghan policemen were killed on Thursday when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle, part of a convoy of U.S.-led forces in southeastern Afghanistan, a provincial police official said.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces were attacked by insurgents during a combat patrol in southern Afghanistan and called in airstrikes, killing more than 65 suspected militants, the coalition said.
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Gunmen attacked the convoy of Iraq's Shi'ite vice president, Adel Abdul Mahdi, in Baghdad on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of any injuries, Interior Ministry officials said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Intelligence reports indicated that the Taliban had the ability to carry out suicide attacks near the main US base in Afghanistan even before a bloody bombing during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, NATO said yesterday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bombing aimed at a US military convoy triggered a chaotic round of gunfire on a busy highway in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, leaving at least eight Afghan civilians dead and about three dozen others wounded, officials said.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Gunmen attacked the convoy of a Pakistani government minister in the restive southwestern province of Baluchistan on Tuesday but he escaped unhurt.
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A suicide car-bomber attacked a NATO convoy on a busy road in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Monday wounding six people including three NATO soldiers, police and NATO said.
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An Afghan vice president survived an  assassination attempt Monday when a remotely controlled device  was detonated near his convoy, while two soldiers from the  U.S.-led coalition were killed in a separate gunbattle.
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A Canadian army convoy is targetted as insurgents launch their heaviest attack on the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
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An Afghan vice-president survived an  assassination attempt Monday in the north and two soldiers from  U.S.-led forces were killed in a gunbattle in the southeast, as  violence escalated ahead of an Oct. 9 election.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Oct. 7, 2004 - 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 running mate