...and Rudy Giuliani states the war in Iraq must continue to victory. Is that right? It's interesting to realize what a thirst for power can do to a man. The Republican Party has committed a coup against the USA Constitution including the provisions of habeous corpus. Where will you stand as the USA grapples with the intention of impeachment as the world continues to grow more dangerous rather than safer? Whom will you vote for come 2008? In the House, the Senate and the Executive Branch? It's time to take the country back from the treasonists.
Taliban Rockets Target Afghan President (click here)
Monday June 11, 2007 4:16 AM
AP Photo TOK110
By FISNIK ABRASHI
Associated Press Writer
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants fired a barrage of rockets at President Hamid Karzai on Sunday as he spoke with a group of elders, but the Afghan leader did not flinch as the rockets landed about 200 yards away from him.
A purported Taliban spokesman said militants planned the strike after learning in advance about Karzai's arrival in Ghazni, a central Afghan province with a strong Taliban presence. Provincial police chief Ali Shah Ahmadzai said no one was hurt in the attack. But it was a sign of the group's rising capabilities after a winter lull in violence.
It was the third attempt on Karzai's life since he became president.
``Please sit down, sit down,'' Karzai told the gathering under a tent in a school yard, gesturing for them to be seated after the rockets landed with a thud. ``Don't be scared. Nothing is happening.''
Several bearded men seated in front of Karzai immediately broke out in applause.
Karzai finished his speech and his security detail whisked him off by helicopter to Kabul, witnesses and officials said.
Sunday's attack underscored the dangers faced by the U.S.-backed government of Karzai, who holds shaky sway over a country plagued by relentless Taliban-led violence that has killed about 2,200 people this year - many of them militants, according to an Associated Press tally of numbers reported by the U.S., NATO, U.N. and Afghan officials. Violence elsewhere in Afghanistan on Sunday left 66 people dead....
Monday June 11, 2007 4:16 AM
AP Photo TOK110
By FISNIK ABRASHI
Associated Press Writer
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants fired a barrage of rockets at President Hamid Karzai on Sunday as he spoke with a group of elders, but the Afghan leader did not flinch as the rockets landed about 200 yards away from him.
A purported Taliban spokesman said militants planned the strike after learning in advance about Karzai's arrival in Ghazni, a central Afghan province with a strong Taliban presence. Provincial police chief Ali Shah Ahmadzai said no one was hurt in the attack. But it was a sign of the group's rising capabilities after a winter lull in violence.
It was the third attempt on Karzai's life since he became president.
``Please sit down, sit down,'' Karzai told the gathering under a tent in a school yard, gesturing for them to be seated after the rockets landed with a thud. ``Don't be scared. Nothing is happening.''
Several bearded men seated in front of Karzai immediately broke out in applause.
Karzai finished his speech and his security detail whisked him off by helicopter to Kabul, witnesses and officials said.
Sunday's attack underscored the dangers faced by the U.S.-backed government of Karzai, who holds shaky sway over a country plagued by relentless Taliban-led violence that has killed about 2,200 people this year - many of them militants, according to an Associated Press tally of numbers reported by the U.S., NATO, U.N. and Afghan officials. Violence elsewhere in Afghanistan on Sunday left 66 people dead....
