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Taliban say fire rockets at Karzai's meeting site
10 Jun 2007 07:59:16 GMT
Source: Reuters
KABUL, June 10 (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas fired rockets at a compound where Afghan President Hamid Karzai was attending a meeting on Sunday, a Taliban spokesman said.

A government official confirmed the firing of rockets, but said the president and his entourage were fine.

It was not clear if there were any casualties from the attack in Andar district of Ghazni province to the southwest of Kabul.
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