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Article: Insecure; Afghanistan.(Afghanistan security)(a deadly bomb explosion and an assassination attempt in Kabul, Afghanistan in one week)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2002
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Suddenly, even the capital is dangerous
IN THE streets of Kabul, the usual maddening traffic has thinned. The many Afghans who were this week commemorating their own national disaster, the murder a year ago of Ahmad Shah Masoud, leader of the only group to hold out against the Taliban, mostly decided that the capital was too dangerous a place to linger in for long. On September 5th, a bomb placed in a crowded area in central Kabul killed at least 25 people and injured another 170. On the same day, President Hamid Karzai narrowly escaped assassination in Kandahar: a gunman who had recently joined the local governor's security forces opened ...