Afghan Survives Assassination Attempt

[Judi Lynn]

Afghan Survives Assassination Attempt

Saturday September 10, 2005 4:01 PM
By DANIEL COONEY

Associated Press Writer

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan soldiers tried to assassinate the country's defense minister Saturday by shooting at his convoy at Kabul's main airport, but the official had already left his vehicle and was unhurt, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.

Nine suspects, all soldiers, were arrested in the attack on Rahim Wardak, said Gen. Mohammed Saher Azimi.

``It is clear that it was an assassination attempt on the defense minister,'' he said.

Four bullets hit the convoy as it was driving out of the airport, one of them ``hitting the exact place where the defense minister had been sitting in the car,'' Azimi said. One bullet wounded a Defense Ministry staffer in a vehicle, he said.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5268911,00.htm

[Eugene]

1. Reuters: Shots near Afghan minister not murder bid -ministry

Shots near Afghan minister not murder bid -ministry
Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:16 AM ET

KABUL (Reuters) - Shots fired near the Afghan defense minister were
not an assassination attempt as originally thought but the result of
a dispute among soldiers, a ministry spokesman said on Sunday.

Shots were fired toward minister Abdul Rahim Wardak's vehicle on
Saturday shortly after he had got out at Kabul airport to catch a
helicopter flight.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-09-11T081549Z_01_HO129751_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-AFGHAN-VIOLENCE-DC.XML

So this was just on big misunderstanding. Suuuuuuuurre. :eyes:

[Judi Lynn]

2. It's not like Afghanistanians' trying to get rid of Bush puppets

would reflect poorly on _Bush's Presidential "skills." After all, Karen Hughes informed the world back in his campaign in 2000 that _Bush LOOKS very Presidential (to idiots).

Obviously no one would want to blow up a puppet _Bush personally wants in the new Afghan government.