September 5,
2002, an
assassination attempt was made on Hamid Karzai in Kandahar City. A gunman wearing the uniform of the new
Afghan National Army opened fire, wounding
Gul Agha Sherzai (former governor of Kandahar) and an American Special Operations officer. The gunman, one of the President's bodyguards, and a bystander who knocked down the gunman were killed when Karzai's American bodyguards returned fire.