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AFGHANISTAN Murder Attempt A man who narrowly failed to explode a car bomb in central Kabul was an al-Qaeda member attempting to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai, said local officials. Only a traffic accident prevented the half-ton bomb from going off in a high-security area that includes Karzai's offices, the American embassy and the headquarters of United Nations peacekeepers. The bomber's car collided with another vehicle and then aroused suspicions by immediately speeding away. Police chased it and caught the driver but not his passenger...
...WorldCom's assets stated in its bankruptcy filing, marking the biggest corporate bust in U.S. history-the amount is almost double that of bankrupt Enron's 48 bullet-proof security cars were purchased in 2000 and 2001 by Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga costing $25 million 90 young Kabul boys were circumcised by Turkish army doctors on July 23rd as a goodwill gesture towards local Muslim families unable to finance the religious procedure 9 is the number of fetuses a Sudanese woman is pregnant with after undergoing lengthy infertility treatment at a Saudi hospital...
...shift risks being seen as a slap in the face to extremely powerful interests in Kabul. In the first days after the Taliban's fall Karzai kept a small band of Pashtun soldiers from his Kandahari home close to him. But tensions with the Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance forces, who fought the Taliban for close to six years and have now assumed control of much of the government, meant the future president had to send his soldiers away. Since then his personal security has been in the hands of the most formidable Northern Alliance commander in Afghanistan, defense minister Mohammed...
...general's ability as it is an indication of a declining level of trust. "We know there could be a great political cost from doing this," says the Western diplomat, "but that price, no matter how much, will be less than losing the president." Two weeks ago Kabul lost a key figure to assassins' bullets, deputy president and public works minister Haji Abdul Qadir. The loss was of more than another politician; Qadir was Karzai's rallying point for the vast Pashtun south which feels excluded - and threatened - by the Northern Alliance. Though the Qadir killing is most likely related...
...doesn't create a good feeling for Afghans to see their president have foreign security guards, to see a president who doesn't have homegrown security," former Kabul mayor Fazel Karim Aymaq told TIME. "As the people see this it may create a longer term problem." A respected Northern Alliance commander loyal to Fahim, Aymaq was recently replaced as mayor, a move that has further antagonized Karzai's political rivals. Western sources cite incompetence and a lack of management as the reason and Aymaq concedes the president had questioned his performance...