Senior Afghan generals suspended for Karzai attack

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Source: Reuters

Senior Afghan generals suspended for Karzai attack
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Mon May 12, 10:12 AM

KABUL (Reuters) - Many senior generals from Afghanistan's armed forces have been suspended from duty and are being questioned over last month's botched attack on President Hamid Karzai, an official said on Monday.


Karzai survived the assassination attempt at a military parade near the presidential palace on April 27 when Taliban insurgents used small arms fire and rockets.


But three people, including one parliamentarian, were shot dead before three of the assailants were killed.


The government had arrested a defence ministry officer and an interior ministry doctor for helping the Taliban to carry out the raid on the same day it happened, but said more officials might have been involved in facilitating it.


Attorney General Abdul Jabar Sabit, tasked to take over the investigation from a previous commission, on Monday suspended eight officials from the ministries of defence and interior, and the intelligence department, an official said.



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