Three More

A suicide attack in Kunduz, Kabul has killed three private security guards, and wounded nine others. The bomb detonated this morning, just before dawn, in a suicide attack at the entrance of a building. After the attack, officials were engaged in a two-hour long fire fight with the flames. It follows a list of Taliban attacks that have occurred over the past few months, many targeted specifically at military and police institutions.

Three were also killed in June after a car bomb north of Kunduz, and another three policemen died after a suicide blast near a mosque in the same area. Not only in Kabul have attacks continued; in Lashkar Gar, eleven were killed in another suicide bomb yesterday. Government officials are often targets.

The list of civilian and military deaths at the hands of the Taliban, who take blame for many of the attacks, continues to grow.

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Troubles in Afghanistan: the increasing brutality of the Taliban.

Blood on the streets of Afghanistan is on the rise. The timing could not come at a worse time for President Karzai, as NATO starts to hand over parts of the country to local security forces.

The most recent suicide attack took place in Lashkar Gah. The target was police headquarters, where 13 people were killed; including Afghan policeman and a child.

In other developments, Afghan interpreters who have worked for the British army are under threat of kidnapping and execution by the Taleban. As British troops prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan, Afghan interpreters fear for their lives. Not like other NATO countries, Britain has no immigration arrangement for these interpreters to immigrate here.