Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Cronoche di due guerre perdute

By Mirwais Afghan Reuters - Sunday, September 14 11:30 am
KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed a car into a United Nations convoy 
on Sunday as it drove through a market in southern Afghanistan, killing a 
driver and two local doctors, U.N. officials and police said.
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Police said another 16 people were wounded in the attack, part of rising 
violence this year by the al Qaeda-backed Taliban in Afghanistan. The 
bombing occurred on a road in the town of Spin Boldak, on the border with 
Pakistan.
The doctors were working for the U.N.'s World Health Organisation on a polio 
vaccination campaign in the region.
"This attack was on innocent civilians working only for the people of 
Afghanistan, and is beyond comprehension." the United Nations Assistance 
Mission in Afghanistan said in a statement.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on their website.
The resurgent Taliban rely largely on suicide attacks and roadside bomb 
blasts in their insurgency against President Hamid Karzai's government and 
the foreign troops backing it.
Nearly 3,000 people have died violently in Afghanistan this year, the 
bloodiest period since the Taliban's overthrow.
But fatalities among U.N. workers are rarer. The last U.N. staff member to 
be killed in Afghanistan was an Afghan driver killed in Kandahar by a 
remote-controlled explosion in April 2007, according to U.N. spokesman Dan 
McNorton.
In another attack on Sunday, a roadside bomb killed a provincial official 
and two of his bodyguards after the device hit their vehicle in southern 
Zabul province, an official said.
A British soldier was killed in an explosion on Saturday in Helmand, a 
province in southern Afghanistan where the Taliban remains strong. His death 
raises the number of British troops killed in Afghanistan to 120 since the 
2001 U.S.-led invasion.
Late on Saturday, militants killed seven police, including a district police 
chief, in Ghazni province to the southwest of Kabul. A roadside bomb killed 
a provincial governor the same day near the capital.
The rising violence this year comes despite an increase in the number of 
foreign troops in Afghanistan to 71,000, prompting some Western politicians 
to warn of a slide back into anarchy.
The militants have expanded the depth and scope of their insurgency and 
enjoy safe havens in fiercely independent tribal areas of neighbouring 
Pakistan.
The U.S. military conceded this month that it was not winning the fight 
against the Taliban in Afghanistan, adding that it would revise its strategy 
to hit militant bases inside Pakistan.
The head of Afghanistan's spy agency, Amrullah Saleh, said the revision of 
U.S. war strategy to involve hitting militants in Pakistan was a belated 
move, media reported on Sunday.
Saleh said the Taliban's fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, and al Qaeda 
chief Osama bin Laden were in Pakistan,
"Where can they go? They have no passport, the only place they can go is 
Pakistan," local media quoted Saleh telling the BBC's local language 
programme.
(Additional Reuters reporters; writing by Sayed Salahuddin, editing by 
Alistair Scrutton and Roger Crabb)
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5 policemen killed in twin bomb attack in NE Baghdad
www.chinaview.cn
 2008-09-14 16:49:13 Print
Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) - Five Iraqi policemen were killed and five 
others injured in a simultaneous roadside bomb explosions near their patrol 
in the volatile province of Diyala on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source 
said.
The attack took place while the patrol was traveling in the town of 
al-Saadiya, some 120 km northeast of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on 
condition of anonymity.
Two of the patrol's vehicles were badly damaged by the blast, the source 
said.
The incident came as U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces are conducting 
major offensive against extremist Sunni and Shiite militiamen in Diyala 
which stretches from the eastern edges of Baghdad to the Iranian border.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/14/content_9989779.htm
 

 By Mirwais Afghan Reuters - Sunday, September 14 11:30 am
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