Monday, October 08, 2007

'Depleted' Taliban Steps Up Suicide Bombings

Newly published United Nations figures show that 103 suicide bombings were carried out in Afghanistan in the first eight months of this year -- a 69 per cent increase over the same period last year. Six attacks in the past seven days across the country, including three in the capital, Kabul, led to 46 deaths. The latest casualty was an American aid worker who died at the weekend in Ghazni.

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