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Al-Qaida Suspect Admits Targeting Karzai with Car Bomb
Thursday, August 1, 2002
The Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan
A hapless would-be car bomber who was intercepted after a traffic accident in the heart of Kabul told interrogators he was assigned by al-Qaida to assassinate President Hamid Karzai or, failing that, to kill foreigners in the Af ghan capital, an Afghan intelligence chief said Wednesday.

Investigators still have not established the identity or nationality of the suspect, captured Monday, but they know that the “very sophisticated” car bomb, almost a half-ton of explosives, was put together outside Afghanistan, Saleh told The Associated Press.
(The Dominion Post News Source)
2002 © The Associated Press.

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