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Three insurgents armed with suicide bombs and rocket-propelled grenades attempt to disrupt President Hamid Karzai's meeting with tribal elders. Two militants are killed; one is arrested, and the Taliban claims responsibility for the raid. While President Hamid Karzai pitched the idea of peace talks with the Taliban to a large tribal gathering in the capital Wednesday, burka-clad suicide-bomb attackers armed with rocket-propelled grenades tried to breach the assembly's heavily fortified compound in an ominous rebuke from the insurgency to the Afghan leader's bid for reconciliation.

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