An Afghan bomber's tale sheds light on motives
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Mumtaz Ahmad spent more than three years at a madrasa in Pakistan learning the Koran, then pursued his pious desire to become a Qari' -- one who recites the Muslim holy book -- at a similar Islamic religious school in Kabul.
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Afghan forces in the southern city of Kandahar say they have foiled a truck bomb that could  have killed hundreds.
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String of urban suicide bombings signals a new strategy among Algeria's Islamist terrorists.
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KAFIR BAND, Afghanistan -- Three suicide bombers killed at least 19 people across Afghanistan yesterday, including four Canadian soldiers in an attack that tested NATO's assertion of success in driving insurgents from this volatile southern region.
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Turkish officials say that a blast which killed six and injured more than 90 was the work of a suicide bomber.
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Security forces have arrested a Tajik suspected of organizing the deadly car-bombing of a U.S. security firm in the Afghan capital and believe he was acting on the orders of al-Qaida, an Afghan official said Saturday.
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A court hears claims that a student accused of terrorism wanted to be a suicide bomber.
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In what the Taliban claimed was an assassination attempt, a suicide bomber attacked the main gate of a U.S. military base Tuesday within earshot of Vice President Dick Cheney. The explosion killed 23 people, including two Americans, and delivered a propaganda blow that undercut the U.S. military and the weak Afghan government it supports.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in northern Afghanistan on Thursday wounding two people, but the apparent target of the attack, ethnic Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, was unhurt, Dostum's spokesman said.
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KABUL, Sept. 8 -- More than 80 percent of suicide bombers in Afghanistan are recruited and trained in neighboring Pakistan, the United Nations said in a report that showed attacks running at record levels this year.
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A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up next to a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two civilians. It was the third straight day troops there have been hit by suicide attacks.
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A bomber blew himself up in a crowded market in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 17 people and wounding dozens, a hospital official said.
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SHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber blew  himself up in northern Afghanistan Thursday wounding 23 people,  but the target of the attack, ethnic Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid  Dostum, escaped unhurt, aides and doctors said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A man identified on tape as the Taliban's new top field commander warned yesterday that recruits were volunteering as suicide bombers and that fighters would continue their holy war until Western powers leave Afghanistan.
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Three people are now known to have died in a suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday. An American woman translator died of her wounds, in addition to an Afghan girl, aged 11, and the bomber.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Intelligence reports indicated that the Taliban had the ability to carry out suicide attacks near the main US base in Afghanistan even before a bloody bombing during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, NATO said yesterday.
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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.