Afghan suicide bombers ill-trained
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- When an 18-year-old from Pakistan dismounted his bicycle a couple miles outside the eastern town of Khost, his clothes flapped up, revealing a suicide vest to an alert farmer nearby.
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An Afghan suicide bomber disguised as a doctor blew himself up at a hospital in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, wounding six Americans.
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The American-trained police force in Afghanistan is not effectively prepared and is incapable of carrying out routine law enforcement duties, a U.S. government report found.
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A suicide bomber walked onto a bus carrying officers to a police academy and detonated himself in Kabul on Sunday, killing at least 35 police officers, according to a Kabul police.
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A suicide bomber targeted an Afghan army bus in the centre of Kabul on Thursday, witnesses said, but there was no immediate word on casualties.
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In Israel's worst terrorist attack in six months, two buses were hit by suicide bombers Tuesday.
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Taliban suicide bombers launched a second day of attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least four people in the capital and a northern city, raising tensions in areas that had been considered relatively secure.
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The spiralling number of suicide attacks in Afghanistan are often carried out by young Afghan men who pass through religious schools in Pakistan, a United Nations report said Sunday.
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A suicide bomber dressed in a doctor's white coat slipped into a hospital compound in eastern Afghanistan, where he was challenged by police and NATO soldiers before detonating his explosives. Seven NATO troops and a hospital employee were injured, a local official said.
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A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-filled car into a military convoy in southern Afghanistan, injuring at least six people, including two NATO soldiers, officials said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber plowed his car into a convoy of NATO troops in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Tuesday, wounding nine civilians and two soldiers, witnesses and officials said.
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Calling militant attacks "cowardly work," President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday deplored a suicide bombing that killed 12 children and accused the fighters of running from battle by donning women's clothing.
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Bombers in various parts of Afghanistan kill at least 17 people, including four Nato troops, and injure children.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber in police uniform killed 10 Afghan policemen and wounded 10 others as he sat with them on Thursday at a checkpoint near the southeastern town of Spin Boldak, a local police chief said.
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A suicide bomber targeted a convoy carrying foreign forces on Friday in the Afghan capital, but there was no immediate word of any possible casualties, police said.
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The second major suicide attack in Kabul this month underscored the rising danger in the capital.
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At least 20 people are killed in a suicide bombing in southern Afghanistan, police say.