Meeting between Hamid Karzai, Chuck Hagel scrapped over security KABUL, Afghanistan, March 10 (UPI) -- A planned meeting between new Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was scrapped over security concerns, officials said. A suicide bomber struck the Afghan Defense Ministry building, killing 10. It is the same facility where Hagel was to meet with his Afghan counterpart ahead of his meeting with Karzai. Hagel is making his first trip to Afghanistan since being confirmed as U.S. secretary of defense. A dinner between Hagel and Karzai was to go on as planned Sunday. Officials said the cancellation had nothing to do with comments Karzai made earlier, that the U.S. military was colluding with the Taliban to keep stirring up trouble in order to keep U.S. forces in the country. The reassurances came after Karzai said in a televised interview the Taliban was acting in concert with the Americans in order to slow down its troop withdrawal in the coming months.