AFGHANISTAN - Kabul bombers target ex-president

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Sunday,

12 March 2006, 07:53 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kabul

bombers target ex-president

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mujaddedi heads

the Afghan reconciliation commission

 

 

 

A

former Afghan president has escaped unhurt after a vehicle carrying

explosives blew up near his convoy in the capital Kabul.

Police say at least three people were killed and several others

injured in the suicide attack on the politician.

Sibghatullah Mujaddedi leads a government commission seeking

reconciliation with Taleban militants and heads the country's senate.

No-one has claimed responsibility so far for the morning blast.

Presidential ally

Mr Mujaddedi was driving to work when the attackers struck on a

busy street near one of Kabul's two

universities, police said.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A pick-up truck approached Mr Mujaddedi's car and

exploded, Baz Noor, one of the former president's bodyguards,

was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.

" Our car was damaged but no-one was hurt, " Mr Noor

said.

The powerful blast shattered windows in houses more than a

kilometre away.

Mr Mujaddedi later arrived in his office and was feeling fine,

his spokesman said.

Mr Mujaddedi was the first president when Mujahideen fighters

seized power from the Soviet-backed regime in 1992.

He has urged all Taleban fighters to lay down their guns and

criticised neighbouring Pakistan for supporting the

movement, the BBC's Mike Donkin in Kabul says.

The former president has also played a key role in bringing

former Taleban leaders into the reconciliation process, our correspondent

says.

Mr Mujaddedi is a close political ally of President Hamid

Karzai, who has condemned the attack.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4798248.stm

 

Afghan suicide bomb

targets convoy

Sunday,

March 12, 2006; Posted: 2:36 a.m. EST (07:36 GMT)

KABUL,

Afghanistan (CNN) -- A suicide car bomb crashed into the convoy of a leading

Afghan politician and blew up Sunday, killing the two bombers and at least two

bodyguards in the convoy, authorities said.

Sibghatullah Mujaddedi, the head of Afghanistan's upper house of parliament, survived the attack unharmed,

according to Afghan security forces and the Interior Ministry.

At least three other people were wounded

in the attack, officials said.

Mujaddedi serves on a commission to try to

promote reconciliation between repentant Taliban members and the current Afghan

government. He is also a former president of the country, briefly heading up Afghanistan in 1992.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/afghan.suicide/index.html

 

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