Three insurgents armed with suicide bombs and rocket-propelled grenades attempt to disrupt President Hamid Karzai's meeting with tribal elders. Two militants are killed; one is arrested, and the Taliban claims responsibility for the raid. While President Hamid Karzai pitched the idea of peace talks with the Taliban to a large tribal gathering in the capital Wednesday, burka-clad suicide-bomb attackers armed with rocket-propelled grenades tried to breach the assembly's heavily fortified compound in an ominous rebuke from the insurgency to the Afghan leader's bid for reconciliation.
Afghanistan Peace Jirga Comes Under Attack
Los Angeles Times - Top News, Los Angeles Times
Wed, 06/02/2010 - 7:42am
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