The Bush Afghanistan Strategy

Hope for bad aim...

GARDEZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has escaped an assassination bid when a rocket was fired at his U.S. military helicopter as it was landing in the southeastern town of Gardez.

The most serious challenge yet to an October 9 presidential election, for which the Taliban claimed responsibility, came as Karzai's rivals called for the vote to be delayed by at least a month, saying security worries made campaigning difficult.

"A rocket was fired at President Karzai as his helicopter was landing," said U.S. military spokesman Major Mark McCann. "It missed and landed about 300 metres from a school in the vicinity of the landing area."

Wasn't somebody just saying that "the Taliban are history"? Funny thing about that...