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Karzai replaces Afghan bodyguards with Americans

In view of "credible threats", Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai dismissed his Afghan bodyguards over the weekend and replaced them with 46 American soldiers, a media report said on Monday.

"There are currently very credible threats against the president," Time magazine quoted a Western diplomatic source as saying.

The shift risks being seen as a slap in the face to extremely powerful interests in Kabul, the magazine said.

In the first few days after the fall of the Taliban, Karzai kept a small band of Pushtoon soldiers from his native Kandahar close to him.

But tensions with the Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance, which fought the Taliban for close to six years and has now assumed control of much of the government, meant that he had to send his soldiers away, the magazine said.

Since then Karzai's personal security had been in the hands of Defence Minister Mohammed Fahim, the most formidable Northern Alliance commander.

"It's an insult to the defence minister," a commander loyal to Fahim told the magazine.

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