Afghanistan: January 19, 2003

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 Police in the capital uncovered and disrupted a plot to kidnap president Karzai and several other senior government officials. The plotters were believed to be working for warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is organizing Taliban and al Qaeda gunmen across the border in Pakistan.

 

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