Zabihullah Mujahid News
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s effort to grant immunity from prosecution to any U.S. troops who remain in his country after 2014 is meeting opposition from some tribal elders.
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Taliban guerrillas tunneled into the main jail in Kandahar, the southern Afghan city at the center of their fight with U.S. forces, releasing about 500 prisoners including insurgent commanders.
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A Taliban suicide bomber struck a NATO military convoy in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul today, killing as many as 18 people, including civilians and six foreign troops fighting the insurgents.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is “fully in support” of U.S. and NATO strategy in Afghanistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said after the alliance set a plan to hand over security to the Afghans by 2014.
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Workers are laying track across north Afghanistan’s rolling grassland for the country’s first rail line, a project that will boost the economy, supply NATO troops and become a target for Taliban bombs.
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A posting on a website claiming to represent the Taliban that Mullah Omar, the leader and founder of the group, had died was erroneous, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the U.S. is holding peace talks with Taliban guerrillas who accept Afghanistan’s constitution.
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In the dusty village bazaar in Jalrez, eastern Afghanistan, Asif Shahrukhi is getting help from Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates to convert his mud-brick mobile-phone shop into a virtual bank.
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Afghanistan’s Taliban denied that their leader Mullah Mohammed Omar had died, saying phone and website messages announcing his death were the result of hacking.
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Afghan Taliban guerrillas fired rockets at a peace conference convened by President Hamid Karzai , underscoring the obstacles his administration faces in reconciling with insurgents.
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