Karzai escapes attempt on his life; Intelligence Chief blames militants with ties to Al Qaeda inside Pakistan; NYT: Pentagon debating deploying another 7,000 troops
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    • Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped an assassination attempt on his life during the Afghan National Day parade in Kabul on April 27. 3 people were killed in the attack. Reports indicated that the attackers had fired from a nearby hotel. Afghanistan’s intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh told reporters that the militants who had carried out the attacks had infiltrated the country’s security forces and had ties to groups linked to Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas1. Kabul’s Defence Ministry has meanwhile again called on Islamabad to stop 'terrorists' from using its territory to attack targets inside Afghanistan2.

    Reports indicated that the US was contemplating deploying another 7,000 troops to Afghanistan, in addition to the 33,000 already present in the country. This was seen as necessary to offset the lack of forces being provided by NATO3. There were about 62,000 foreign troops in the country.

    In other developments, 17 Taliban were killed in operations in Zabul province, southern Afghanistan while a NATO soldier was also killed in Helmand province, also in the south.

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