Afghan bombers 'foreigners' - UN
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More than half the suicide bombers used by the Taleban in Afghanistan are not Afghan nationals, a UN report says.
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A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of foreign-military and civilian vehicles on Saturday in the Afghan capital, killing four civilians and wounding five people, including a foreigner, a senior police official told Reuters.
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A roadside bomb probably intended for Afghan or NATO forces killed five civilians in southern Afghanistan, while militants killed six Afghans driving a convoy of trucks to a NATO base, officials said Sunday.
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The United Nations is setting up an independent panel to investigate a bombing that killed 17 U.N. employees in Algiers on December 11, the world body announced on Monday.
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A series of bombs went off at a U.N. voter registration office in western Afghanistan, injuring six policemen, setting vehicles ablaze and shattering windows, police and the United Nations said Friday. It was the latest in a string of attacks targeting election workers.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the site of a suicide bombing that killed 17 U.N. staff members, saying Tuesday that terrorism "must be condemned in the name of humanity."
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center on Thursday said that in the wake of last week's murder of former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto it was calling on the United Nations to designate suicide bombings as a crime against humanity.
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Afghanistan's Taliban plan to abduct and kill more nationals from foreign countries whose troops serve under NATO and the U.S. military in the country, a spokesman for the Islamic movement warned on Monday.
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The Afghan government on Thursday blamed drug smugglers &#151; not Taliban or al-Qaida fighters &#151; for a bomb attack on interim leader Hamid Karzai's vice presidential running mate, saying the country's landmark elections this weekend are a threat to their business.
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Up to 380 Afghan civilians have been killed in fighting between Taliban insurgents and Afghan and international forces this year, the United Nations said Monday.
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KANDAHAR -- A series of bombs went off at a United Nations voter registration office in western Afghanistan, police said yesterday, injuring six policemen, setting vehicles ablaze and shattering windows.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber plowed his car into a convoy of foreign troops in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Tuesday, wounding several civilians, witnesses said.
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A devastating suicide car bombing in   Kabul on Friday, the worst for months, killed 16 people   including seven foreigners, rescuers and police said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- US-led airstrikes targeting Taliban militants who had attacked NATO forces slammed into civilian homes in southern Afghanistan, killing civilians and insurgents, Afghan and Western officials said yesterday.
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Suspected Taliban suicide bombers killed four people in an attack on Monday on a luxury hotel in Kabul where the Norwegian foreign minister was staying, Afghan officials said.
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Afghanistan's NATO force warned Afghans to keep clear of its convoys on Saturday after several incidents in which troops fired at civilians in the mistaken belief they were under attack by suicide bombers.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Campaigning for Afghanistan's first direct presidential election ended with a burst of violence Wednesday as attackers set off a bomb in a failed effort to kill interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai's vice presidential running-mate.    Despite persistent violence, the United Nations declared this hard-luck nation ready for Saturday's vote, a historic experiment with democracy after more than two decades of unrelenting ruin, from Soviet occupation to civil war to the repressive Taliban and the thunderous U.S...