Thugs attack, beat Afghan attorney-general - aide

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Source: Reuters

KABUL, June 8 (Reuters) - Thugs attacked and beat Afghanistan's attorney-general, a critic of some of the country's factional leaders and former warlords, on a road north of Kabul on Friday, an aide to the attorney-general said. A group of men stopped Abdul Jabar Sabet's car on Friday morning at a road block and hit him with clubs and rifle butts after he got out of the vehicle, said the aide.

The aide, who said he had witnessed the attack and spoke on condition of anonymity, said some assailants were bodyguards for a general inside the interior ministry. Sabet had been taken to hospital, he said. The aide did not have details of his injuries.

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1. Afghan legal chief says beaten over graft campaign

Afghan legal chief says beaten over graft campaign
08 Jun 2007 15:25:48 GMT
Source: Reuters
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Background
Afghan turmoil
More (Recasts after attorney-general's news conference)

KABUL, June 8 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's attorney-general accused a local security-forces commander of ordering bodyguards to beat him up on Friday, describing the attack as a reaction to the chief law officer's campaign against corruption.

General Deen Mohammad Jurat, former head of security in the interior ministry, was reported by a local TV station to have denied the allegation. Reuters could not reach him by phone.

Graft is widespread in Afghanistan, undermining confidence at home and abroad in the Western-backed administration of President Hamid Karzai, who has led the country since U.S.-led troops overthrew the Taliban in 2001.

"You may know that I have declared jihad, holy war, against corruption, against criminals and crime and he is one of my potential targets," Attorney-General Abdul Jabar Sabet told a news conference in Kabul after the alleged attack.

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