Afghanistan Foils Plot to Kill U.S. Ambassador

The Associated Press reports that Afghan intelligence officials thwarted a plot to assassinate U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad:

Three Pakistani men armed with rocket propelled grenades and assault rifles, were arrested in the Qarghayi district of Laghman province on Sunday, just 150 feet from where Khalilzad had planned to inaugurate a road with Afghanistan's interior minister, the officials told The Associated Press.

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Khalilzad canceled his appearance at the road opening at the last minute and was never in danger, the official said. The interior minister, Ali Ahmad Jalali, also canceled his appearance.

Khalilzad has been nominated as the next US envoy to Iraq. Assaninating Ambassador Khalilzad would have given the evil doers much to brag about. Here's a big atta boy to the Afghan intelligence officials.