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President survives assassination bid
AP
05 September 2002
Afghan President Hamid Karzai survived an assassination attempt today when one of his security guards fired at his car as it was leaving the governor's mansion in the southern city of Kandahar.
The Kandahar governor, Gul Agha Sherzai, was injured and three people were killed in the melee when Mr Karzai's American bodyguards opened fire.
The incident occurred shortly after a car bomb killed and wounded scores of people in the capital Kabul, It was unclear if the incidents were related.
"I was just outside the gate when I heard the gunshots," Mr Sherzai's security chief Dur Mohammed said. "The Americans opened fire on three people and they were killed."
Mr Karzai was in Kandahar, the former spiritual headquarters of the Taliban, to attend a wedding celebration for his youngest brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai.
Witnesses said Mr Karzai was leaving the governor's house in his motorcade when shots were fired in his direction. US Special Forces guarding him screamed for him to take cover and the convoy sped away.
Three bullet–riddled bodies could be seen outside the mansion grounds in a pool of blood.
The powerful car bomb in the centre of Kabul today rocked a busy market area, killing at least 22 people in the bloodiest attack since the fall of the Taliban.
A large number of people were seriously injured with about 65 people taken to one hospital alone.
Emergency vehicles and armoured personnel carriers from the international peacekeeping force rushed to the scene in a crowded market area near the Ministry of Information.
Witnesses said a smaller explosion had drawn crowds to the area when the car bomb – apparently a taxi – exploded in front of a building containing shops selling televisions and satellite dishes. The second floor of the building housed a small hotel.
Dazed victims were led away, their clothing ripped and covered in blood. Five or six vehicles were destroyed, windows shattered and doors of shops ripped off their hinges.
"This bomb was inside a taxi," said police spokesman Dul Aqa. "It was a very, very strong explosion. We can't say exactly who was behind it but we know the last bombs were al–Qaida and (former Prime Minister) Gulbuddin (Hekmatyar)."
Mr Hekmatyar issued a call for jihad, or holy war, this week to drive American and foreign troops including international peacekeepers from Afghanistan.
The death toll was uncertain because Afghans often pick up the bodies of their relatives and bury them immediately without reporting the death.
The blast occurred in one of the most congested areas of the city on a day when many residents do their shopping before Friday's Muslim prayer day. One shopper, Haji Abdul Aroof, said he saw four bodies lying in the street.
"We came to see what was happening when the second bomb went off," he said. "There was a powerful explosion and we all ran."
President Hamid Karzai was out of the city, attending the wedding celebration of his brother in Kandahar.
Thirty–four people were taken to Jamhuriat Hospital, which lacked facilities to handle broken bones and other serious injuries. They were transferred to the Italian Emergency Hospital and the Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital, doctors said.
At the Italian hospital, staff posted lists with the names of 42 wounded. Staff members said about 65 people had been taken to the hospital, but some of the most seriously wounded could not be identified.
The blast was the most serious in a string of bombings that have occurred in the Afghan capital since 15 August when a small blast shattered windows at the Ministry of Telecommunications. Previous bombings had been small, causing few casualties and relatively little damage.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=330781
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