A failed rocket attack on a U.S. helicopter carrying President Hamid Karzai was carried out by a self-confessed Taliban commando, Afghanistan's top law-enforcer said Saturday. Three suspects were arrested within hours of Thursday's attack, which saw the American military whisk Karzai away from a southeastern city where he was to open a school. "They are local people from that village where we arrested them," Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali said. "They are members of the Taliban. They said they are Taliban."
"Then they asked us to stop hurting them. Then they said 'please.' Then they said 'pretty please'..." |
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