Afghan intel: Karzai was warned of assassination plot

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Source: AP

KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai was warned of a weekend assassination plot against him, Afghanistan's intelligence chief said Tuesday, while admitting failings by security services.

Meanwhile, a suicide attack killed 15 people in an eastern province, a NATO spokesman said.

Amrullah Saleh told Parliament the plot to kill Karzai was hatched last month and the gunmen had rented the hotel room they opened fire from 45 days before the attack.

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"We had technical information ... that this work would happen," Saleh told a National Assembly session broadcast live on national television. "We passed this information to the national security (adviser) and to the president of Afghanistan."

Despite stringent measures by security services to protect the event, "the result is that we failed," Saleh said.

He refused to give further details about the plot during an open session.



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