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While Afghanistan has no shortage of warlords looking to make their mark, the possibility that the Kabul blast was linked to the attempt on Karzai suggests the work of a coordinated network. Karzai said Rahman was "definitely a member of al-Qaeda." But government authorities believe that Osama bin Laden's decimated forces in Afghanistan are not acting alone. Afghan intelligence officials say al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters have forged links with guerrillas loyal to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the ruthless former Prime Minister who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in 1996. Afghan and Western officials believe that since slipping...
...soldier. A nearby youth, 19, by some accounts the one who had moved forward to greet Karzai, shoved Rahman to the ground. The U.S. commandos then bounded out of their vehicle and opened fire. Rahman, the youth and an Afghan bodyguard died in the fusillade. Back in Kabul that night, Karzai seemed unfazed by his brush with death but aware that it probably will not be his last. "I'm fine," he said. "I expect things like this to happen...
...reasonable expectation. Only hours before the attempt on Karzai last Thursday, a bomb planted in a taxi detonated on one of Kabul's busiest downtown streets, killing 32 and injuring at least 150. Government investigators said they had no evidence that the attacks were coordinated, but many Afghans had their suspicions. The blast in Kabul last week, the most lethal in a rash of bombings this summer, came after weeks of intelligence warnings about the likelihood of terrorist attacks around the anniversary of Sept. 11. Although U.S. commanders say the 12,000 allied troops in Afghanistan have flushed nearly...
Overseas, the president who campaigned against “nation-building” cannot escape his obligation to build a nation out of the rubble in Afghanistan. Last week’s assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai and the deadly bombing in Kabul demonstrate the extreme fragility of the country’s democratic foundations...
Person of the Week As president of strife-torn Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai is on the hit lists of some of the world's most dangerous warlords and terrorists. On Thursday, Karzai narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in Kandahar, just hours after a car bomb killed 30 people in Kabul. Karzai later remarked, "I expect things like this to happen...