Afghan governor targeted by bomb
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A suicide bomb attack inside the governor's office in Helmand province in south Afghanistan kills six people.
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Afghanistan&#39;s President Hamid Karzai says he is deeply disturbed by a bomb attack in the capital Kabul in which at least seven people died.
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - The governor of Iraq's Salahuddin province escaped an assassination attempt on Monday that, if successful, would have made him the third regional governor to be killed this month, police said.
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A suicide bomber struck outside the compound of a southern Afghan provincial governor on Tuesday, killing 18 people and wounding 17, officials said.
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A bomb that tore through a dog fighting match in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Sunday, killed 80 people and wounded many more, provincial governor Assadullah Khalid said.
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A suicide bomber struck Monday in eastern Afghanistan at the funeral of a provincial governor who died in a suicide blast the previous day, police and witnesses said. At least five people were killed, but four Cabinet ministers who were attending the funeral escaped unharmed, police said.
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At least five people are killed in a suicide attack at the funeral of an assassinated Afghan governor, police say.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan government has fired the governor of its biggest drug-producing province, a center of Taliban resistance that has seen some of the country's heaviest fighting this year, officials said yesterday.
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An Afghan provincial governor has lashed out against the government of President Hamid Karzai, saying there was a "vacuum of authority" in remote areas that the Taliban or criminals would fill.
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HERAT, Afghanistan -- Angry mobs loyal to ousted governor Ismail Khan burned half a dozen international aid compounds, looted their contents, and stoned national army troops sent to keep order yesterday as the newly named provincial governor was welcomed at an ornate palace ceremony in this remote western city.
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The deputy governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province is killed in a bomb attack on a mosque.
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Drug runners were behind a bomb attack on  one of President Hamid Karzai's running mates just days before  Afghanistan holds an historic election, Interior Minister Ali  Ahmad Jalali said Thursday.
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The Afghan government and Western officials are seeking to capitalize on a recent attack against the entrenched governor of the western province of Herat by removing
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- A Taliban suicide bomber killed 18 people outside a provincial governor's compound yesterday, including several Muslim pilgrims set to travel to Mecca, in another attack directed at senior figures in President Hamid Karzai's US-backed government.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb targeting a police convoy killed nine officers, including a local commander, and left one critically wounded yesterday in western Afghanistan, officials said.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at a governor's house in southern Afghanistan, killing eight people, in the latest bloodshed linked to a spiralling Taliban insurgency.
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KANDAHAR -- President Hamid Karzai directly accused Pakistan's government yesterday of supporting the Taliban insurgency in his country, hours after a suicide attacker exploded himself in an Afghan governor's compound, killing eight. The attacks are aimed at undermining the government of Karzai.