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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...
AFGHANISTAN Karzai's Close Brush With Death President Hamid Karzai narrowly survived an assassination attempt during a visit to Kandahar, the former Taliban stronghold. A man fired two shots into his car from close range. Karzai's American bodyguards immediately returned fire, killing the shooter. The attack was launched hours after a pair of bomb blasts killed at least 15 people in the capital Kabul. Dozens of people were injured by the explosion in the business district close to a market crowded with shoppers. Authorities blamed "Osama and his associates...
America's attention may have moved on from Afghanistan to Iraq, but Thursday's violence in Kabul and Kandahar is a stark reminder that its work there is far from over. A car bomb explosion in the capital killed at least 10 people, while a few hours later in Kandahar, President Mohammed Karzai survived an assassination attempt by a shooter in Afghan army uniform. These were hardly isolated incidents: Thursday's bombing was the eighth in the capital in less than a month, and Karzai's deputy, Haji Abdul Qadir, had been assassinated there in July - prompting U.S. personnel...
...aftermath of that raid, coalition forces can hardly count on friendly tips from the mountain folk of Uruzgan, Zabul, Helmand and Kandahar provinces to help them close in on Omar. Many there sympathize with Omar. "They are his friends, he is their leader, and he is also their guest," says Mullah Gul Akhund, a police commander in Kandahar. "They must protect him." Should those bonds prove feeble, the Taliban know how to drive home the consequences of treachery. In mid-June, Mullah Bradar was seen on horseback in Helmand province, in the mountains near Washir. About the same time...
...where Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is hiding is one thing. Finding him is another. For months Afghan government and U.S. military sources have believed that the man who gave sanctuary to Osama bin Laden has found refuge of his own in an arc of inaccessible mountains north of Kandahar. It is a place where even a half-blind cleric on the run has factors in his favor: a harsh environment, strong tribal ties, loyal friends and a population increasingly disposed to hate the Americans. Little wonder, says a senior Kandahar police commander, that after months of searching, the coalition...