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Afghan leader denies al-Qaeda report
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has contradicted suggestions that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network has set up new training camps in eastern Afghanistan. Mr Karzai, commenting on a UN report that al-Qaeda had activated training camps in the east of the country, said he was "certain there are no large-scale camps in Afghanistan." However, President Karzai told reporters in the Swedish capital Stockholm on Wednesday that there were individuals and small groups active in his country. President Karzai said some people hiding in Afghanistan occasionally come out and "do certain things like they did yesterday in Kabul, throwing a grenade at a jeep carrying American soldiers." "Hard to kill every single cockroach, they keep crawling in from the neighbors." He said such small incidents would continue for a long time but the major activities of the past had ended. We hope so. Posted by: Steve 2002-12-18 |
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