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Karzai Escapes Assassination Attempt, Downtown Kabul Bombed
Thursday, September 5, 2002
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

Afghan officials have blamed the attacks on al Qaeda.

WASHINGTON -- AFIS
Afghan President Hamid Karzai today survived an apparent assassination attempt in the city of Kandahar.

Karzai was in a motorcade with Kandahar Province Gov. Shirzai at about 10:30 a.m. EDT when an Afghan in uniform standing nearby fired shots into the president's car. The would-be assassin missed Karzai, but hit Shirzai in the neck, according to Afghanistan's foreign minister.

A Karzai Afghan bodyguard and the gunman killed each other in an exchange of shots, according to the minister.
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