Word: kabul
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...Afghan authorities say more than 40 people were killed. President Bush called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to express his sympathy for those who lost loved ones, and the two leaders committed themselves to a full investigation of the tragedy. But the deaths prompted the first anti-American demonstration in Kabul, the Afghan capital, since the fall of the Taliban. A few days later, Haji Abdul Qadir, a Deputy President in Karzai's government, was killed in his car outside the Ministry of Public Works. Two gunmen, who had been hiding in bushes by the driveway, riddled the car with bullets...
...money do the talking. "Verbally, at least, the Americans have admitted the attack was a mistake," says Afghan cabinet minister Mohammed Arif Noorzai, the man who headed the joint U.S.-Afghan investigation into the killings. And, he says, in a meeting earlier this week with Afghan officials in Kabul they did much more than that - they promised cash to allow the victims to be compensated...
...embassy officials in Kabul declined to comment despite TIME's inquiries. But for an area of Afghanistan where hold-out Taliban commanders still roam free - among them, it is believed, the fundamentalist movement's leader, Mullah Omar - U.S. contributions in bricks and mortar may be the best bet of bringing the locals in from the cold...
...ASSASSINATED. HAJI ABDUL QADIR, Vice President and Minister of Public Works in Afghanistan's transitional government; in Kabul. One of three Vice Presidents chosen to serve in the Cabinet of President Hamid Karzai's, Qadir was gunned down in his own car as he left the ministry. Qadir was the brother of rebel commander Abdul Haq, who was killed by the Taliban last year...
...little after noon on Saturday in Kabul Yusuf Khan called his uncle, one of Afghanistan's four deputy presidents, to ask when he would be home for lunch. "I'll be in the car soon," Abdul Haji Qadir told his young relative. "I'm coming in maybe 15 or 20 minutes." True to his word Qadir drove out of Kabul's Ministry of Public Works - his new cabinet portfolio - at 12:40 p.m. But he never made it on to the street. Two assassins with AK-47assault rifles were waiting in the bushes shrouding the driveway. As Qadir's dark...