Afghan President Hamid Karzai listens questions from a journalist during a news conference at the Presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, June 9, 2003. Karzai said that he will do everything he can to prevent terrorist attacks and protect foreigners in Afghanistan, two days after a suicide bombing ripped through a bus killing four German peacekeepers and one Afghan civilian. Afghan President Vows to Prevent Terror
KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai vowed on Monday to do everything he can to prevent terrorist attacks and protect foreigners in Afghanistan, after a suicide attack killed four German peacekeepers and an Afghan civilian. Karzai said the perpetrator of Saturday's attack in the capital was likely not Afghan.
"The problem is mostly foreign in our case," Karzai told a press conference, regarding a recent wave of attacks countrywide. "And I tell you with a guarantee, that the person who did a suicide attack the day before yesterday, you'll find out was not from Afghanistan."
Exiled Sharif Ali Bin Al-Hussein waves to his supporters after praying at the tomb of the former Iraqi royal family in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) on Tuesday June 10, 2003. Ali Bin Al-Hussein, the cousin of assassinated Iraqi King Faisal II, is advocating a constitutional monarchy to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. He arrived for the first time since going on exile in 1958.
Exiled Sharif Ali Bin Al-Hussein waves to his supporters following his arrival here in Baghdad for the first time since 1958 Tuesday June 10, 2003 in Iraq. Ali Bin Al-Hussein, the cousin of assassinated King Faisal II of Iraq, is advocating a constitutional monarchy to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Iraqis gather human remains, unearthed from a mass grave near the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad. Two hundred and sixteen bodies of men, women and children, believed to be victims of repression by Saddam Hussein's government during the 1991 Shiite uprising, were discovered, 20 kms from the city.