Taliban Suspected in Failed Karzai Attack
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A failed rocket attack on a US helicopter carrying President Hamid Karzai was carried out by a self-confessed Taliban commando, Afghanistan&#39;s top law-enforcer said Saturday.
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KABUL: The Talibanâs one-eyed leader Mulla Omar has lost the confidence of some of his commanders after the failure by Taliban insurgents to disrupt Afghanistanâs first presidential election, the US military said on Wednesday.
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Gardez (Afghanistan), Sept. 16 : Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped an assassination bid today when a rocket was fired at his US military helicopter as it was landing in the southeastern town of Gardez.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Investigators on Wednesday said that a weeks-long probe into fraud in Afghanistanâs presidential election had concluded that any problems with fraud were not serious enough to have overturned incumbent Hamid Karzaiâs victory.
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Officials in Afghanistan say security forces have killed a senior Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan. Government officials say Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar and two followers died in a gunbattle late Saturday in a village in the central province of Uruzgan.
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Calling militant attacks "cowardly work," President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday deplored a suicide bombing that killed 12 children and accused the fighters of running from battle by donning women's clothing.
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - Afghanistan said on Friday it had no evidence the government of Iran was behind a shipment of weapons to Taliban insurgents.
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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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More than 20 suspected Taliban drowned in a river in southern Afghanistan while fleeing a joint Afghan and NATO attack, an Afghan official said Tuesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai accused NATO and US-led troops yesterday of carelessly killing scores of Afghan civilians and warned that the fight against resurgent Taliban militants could fail unless foreign forces show more restraint.
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The Taliban threatened Monday to launch  attacks during the swearing in of Afghan President Hamid Karzai  while the U.S. military said every precaution was being taken  to protect a ceremony to be attended by top U.S. officials.
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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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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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Afghan President Hamid Karzai dodged death three weeks ago when Taliban fighters fired a rocket at him in Gardez. Yesterday, his running mate in Saturday&#39;s national election, Ahmad Zia Masood, barely survived a Taliban bomb in Faizabad.
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(Kandahar, Afghanistan-AP) Sept. 26, 2004 - Afghan officials say an alleged senior Taliban commander and two fighters have been killed in a raid on a village home in southern Afghanistan.
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Musharraf and Karzai may have agreed to work together, but U.S. officials acknowledge that rooting out the Taliban insurgency will be far more time consuming, expensive and complex than was originally envisioned
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have voiced confidence that Taliban insurgents can be defeated, but pressed Pakistan to help curb a planned spring offensive.