Suicide Bomber Kills a Governor in Afghanistan
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The governor of Paktia Province is the highest-ranking official to be killed since the Taliban began a campaign of suicide bombings last year.
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A suicide bomber in police uniform killed the police chief of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday as he toured the scene of a blast a day earlier in which at least 20 people died, police said.
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Muhammad Hakim Taniwal of Paktia Province was the first governor to be killed since the Taliban began a campaign of suicide bombings last year.
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A suicide bomber has killed at least 27 people at an election rally in the northwestern town of Parachinar that borders Afghanistan, interior minister Hamid Nawaz told AFP on Saturday.
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A roadside bomb killed six Afghans working for a Western security company in the east of the country on Sunday, the provincial governor said. Afghanistan has been hit by a wave of suicide and roadside bombs in the last two years as Taliban insurgents switch to Iraq-style tactics after suffering heavy casualties in conventional attacks.
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The provincial police chief died in a suicide bombing Thursday while inspecting the site of a major bombing in Mosul.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sep. 10 -- A suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body assassinated the popular governor of eastern Paktia province Sunday, just two days after a powerful car bomb killed 16 people, including two U.S. soldiers, in downtown Kabul, the capital.
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An explosion disrupts the funeral of an Afghan provincial governor killed by a suicide attacker on Sunday.
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A suicide attack killed at least seven people, including the bomber, on a road leading to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's army headquarters in Rawalpindi, city police chief Saud Aziz told reporters.
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At least four police and two civilians have been killed in a suicide attack at the governor's house in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province.
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Gunmen killed the governor of the Baghdad province, Ali al-Haidari, and six of his bodyguards on Tuesday, officials said. Earlier Tuesday, several Iraqis were killed when a suicide bomber rammed a fuel truck into a checkpoint near the fortified Green Zone.
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BAGRAM AIRBASE, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people on Tuesday in an attack on the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan where Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting after an unannounced visit.
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A suicide bomber assassinated an Afghan   provincial governor on Sunday, as NATO said it killed almost   100 more Taliban fighters in its biggest offensive against the   resurgent Islamist group.
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A suicide bomber in police uniform killed a top police official in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday as he toured the site of an explosion that killed 40 people and wounded 220 a day earlier, officials said.
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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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Gunmen killed the Baghdad governor in  Iraq's highest-profile assassination in eight months and a  suicide bomber killed 10 people near the Green Zone on Tuesday  in an escalating campaign to wreck a Jan. 30 election.
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A bomb that tore through a dog fighting match in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Sunday, killed 80 people and wounded many more, provincial governor Assadullah Khalid said.