Afghanistan War News Updates -- June 3, 2010

Delegates look on as Afghan President Hamid Karzai delivers a speech to the National Consultive Peace Jirga. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)

Taliban Targets Afghanistan Peace Jirga -- L.A. Times

In a rejection of reconciliation efforts, Taliban sends three militants to disrupt President Hamid Karzai's meeting with tribal elders. Two attackers are killed and one is arrested.

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — As Afghan President Hamid Karzai pitched the idea of peace talks with the Taliban to a large tribal gathering Wednesday in the capital, burka-clad suicide-bomb attackers armed with rocket grenade launchers tried to breach the assembly's heavily fortified compound in an ominous rebuke from the insurgency to his bid for reconciliation.

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More News on Afghanistan

Afghan Peace Conference Continues as Violence Rocks South -- Voice of America
Taleban send message of war to Karzai’s peace summit -- Times Online
Watch the jirga attack unfold -- CNN
In Afghanistan, Jirga Interrupted By Explosions, Gunfire, Suicide Attack -- NPR
Taliban Attacks Shake Afghan Peace Gathering -- New York Times
Afghan Insurgents Fire on Peace Conference -- CBS
Suicide bombers in burkas attack Afghan peace conference -- The Telegraph
Differences Remain at Afghan Peace Conference -- New York Times/AP
Afghan Peace Jirga Mulls Talks with Taliban -- Time Magazine
Afghanistan peace conference debates talking to Taliban -- Yahoo News/Christian Science Monitor
Afghanistan: why US changed its mind about Karzai's 'jirga' -- Christian Science Monitor
Afghanistan peace jirga's unlikely critics: victims of war crimes -- Christian Science Monitor

Eight Afghan Civilians Killed -- Wall Street Journal
8 Afghan civilians killed in fighting, bombing -- AP
Premature Explosion Kills 4 Militants in S. Afghanistan -- CRIEnglish
UK Marine killed in Afghanistan blast -- Yahoo News/AFP
NATO soldier, 14 Taliban fighters killed in Afghanistan -- Hindustan Times
Newly minted Taliban shadow governor in Afghan north captured -- Long War Journal
Afghan forces kill 5 militants, detain 9 including commander: Official -- People's Daily
Afghanistan Army on ‘Glide Path’ to Meeting Quality, Growth Goals -- US Department of Defense
Top soldier says firing general was right thing to do -- Montreal Gazette, Canwest
Disgraced Afghanistan commander handled respectfully, says top soldier -- Winnipeg Free Press
Canadian Afghan deployment past 2011 possible: MPs -- CBC

Indian role key to future success in Afghanistan: US -- DAWN
India-US talks to focus on Afghanistan, economic tie -- Reuters

Is there a Plan B for Afghanistan? -- CNN
Afghanistan: All at peace, except for the war -- Guardian editorial
Too early for an Afghan amnesty? -- Ashley Jackson, The Guardian