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Afghanistan: a school was hit by a rocket before the President's visit

Khabul, Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai was about to land aboard a Chinook helicopter at the closer military air station

Afghan temporary President Hamid Karzai, during one of its unusual official visits - as he lives under remarkable security measures and hardly decides to go far from Khabul headquarter - had scheduled to visit a school in the Gardez region (in the south-east area of the country) today, a place then reached by a US CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Just when the aircraft was about to land nearby the closer...

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Rome, Italy, 09/16/2004 17:37
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