Bush dodges rebel bullets
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A FOUR-hour stopover in Colombia last week could have cost US President George W. Bush his life. Marxist rebel army the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia reportedly planned to kill Mr Bush on his visit
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President Bush vowed yesterday to make a sustained new military and political effort to beat back resurgent Taliban forces as he turned his attention back to Afghanistan and a conflict that has been overshadowed for the past couple of years by the larger war in Iraq.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - President Bush was targetedfor assassination by Colombia's biggest Marxist rebel groupthis week when he visited the Caribbean port city of Cartagena,a top Colombian official said on Saturday.
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PRESIDENT BUSH admitted yesterday that the murderous bombing campaign by fighters in Iraq was âhaving an effectâ and that US-trained Iraqi troops were nowhere near ready to take over the countryâs security.
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Marxist rebels had planned to assassinate President Bush last Monday during his four-hour stopover in Colombia to meet President Ãlvaro Uribe, Defense Minister
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President George W. Bush on Thursday warned Damascus against interfering in Lebanon's political crisis, saying his patience with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had run out long ago.
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US President George W. Bush on Monday reofferred the backup for Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in his war against drug production and rebels nationwide.
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Everything was going fine until President Bush dropped the ball.
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President George W. Bush admitted on  Thursday that his bellicose &quot;bring &#039;em on&quot; taunt to Iraqi  insurgents was a big mistake, as he and British Prime Minister  Tony Blair carefully avoided setting a timetable for removing  troops from Iraq.
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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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BOGOTA -- Colombia's government backpedaled yesterday on a sensational claim made by the defense minister that Marxist rebels wanted to assassinate President Bush during a recent state visit.
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President Bush defended his decision not to visit violence-stricken nations like Kenya and Sudan, saying he wanted to focus on âsuccess stories.â
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President Bush, facing election-year   criticism that the Iraq war is a distraction from efforts to   stabilize Afghanistan, insisted on Friday allied forces were   making headway against a resurgent Taliban.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Sept. 16, 2004 - An apparent attempt to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai failed Thurdsday when a rocket that was fired at his helicopter missed by 300 yards, the US military said.
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Assailants fired a rocket at an American helicopter taking President Hamid Karzai on a rare foray into Afghanistan&#39;s troubled provinces Thursday, but it missed and he escaped injury.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian rebels on Wednesdaydenied government accusations they plotted to kill PresidentBush during a visit to the port of Cartagena last week.
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RENO, Nev, Aug. 28--President Bush played down the failure of the Iraqi government to meet political benchmarks set by the U.S. Congress, telling American Legionnaires Tuesday morning that it makes no sense to ignore real military progress despite the Iraqi government's failure to approve all the...