Taliban say fire rockets at Karzai's meeting site

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

KABUL, June 10 (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas fired rockets at a compound where Afghan President Hamid Karzai was attending a meeting on Sunday, a Taliban spokesman said.

A government official confirmed the firing of rockets, but said the president and his entourage were fine.

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[Eugene]

1. Arrests Made in Afghan Rocket Attack

Source: Associated Press

Arrests Made in Afghan Rocket Attack

By FISNIK ABRASHI
The Associated Press
Monday, June 11, 2007; 5:57 AM

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials arrested seven
suspects in connection with an apparent assassination
attempt against President Hamid Karzai, a government
spokesman said Monday.

Karzai was giving a speech on Sunday to elders and
residents in Andar district in central Afghanistan when
rockets were fired nearby, said Ali Shah Ahmadzai, the
provincial police chief. The rockets missed their target,
and no one was hurt.

"After the rockets were fired, we launched a search
operation in the area," Interior Ministry spokesman
Zemeri Bashary said Monday. "We arrested seven
people from nearby villages."

He provided no further details.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/11/AR2007061100421.html

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Source: Reuters

Afghan leader not cowed by rocket attack -spokesman
11 Jun 2007 08:36:59 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Updates with arrests of suspected attackers)

By Mark Bendeich

KABUL, June 11 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai
has no plans to restrict his travel or beef up personal
security after surviving a third assassination attempt in a
rocket attack outside the capital, a presidential spokesman
said on Monday.

Taliban insurgents fired several rockets at a building where
Karzai was giving a speech on Sunday. They fell harmlessly
wide of their target but the incident highlighted the dangers
for Karzai of travelling outside his heavily fortified base
in Kabul.

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