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Mon 06 Jun 2007Taliban attempt to kill Karzai narrowly missesAfghanistan:Taliban guerrillas made a failed attempt to kill Afghan president Hamid Karzai in a rocket attack yesterday, narrowly missing a building where he was giving a speech, Taliban and government sources said.Rockets fell several hundred metres from the government building southwest of Kabul and some of the audience began to flee, but Mr Karzai urged them to stay and he finished his speech, a government official and a witness said.