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"I emphasize that these are the most complicated elections I have seen," U.N. Special Representative Kai Eide told reporters as he visited a Kabul warehouse where the Afghan election commission is finalizing preparations for the poll. "I mentioned to you how inaccessible the country is, how challenging the whole logistical operation is, and also the fact that the country is a country in conflict." he said. Away from the capital, Abdullah Abdullah, one of the leading challengers to President Hamid Karzai, said one of his local campaign officials had been shot and wounded and a bodyguard killed in Afghanistan's volatile east. It was the third attack on a candidate or campaign official in six days. On Sunday, Karzai's senior vice-presidential running mate Mohammad Qasim Fahim escaped unhurt from a Taliban ambush, just as another minor candidate had last week. Abdullah, once a close aide to widely revered Tajik guerrilla leader Ahmed Shah Masood, said campaign official Mohammad Ismael was in hospital but his injuries were not life-threatening. He said he did not think the ambush, which happened as Ismael drove to meet supporters in Laghman province, was the work of the Taliban but gave few other details. "Security is a concern. This is the third time that our people have come under attack. We hope the government will investigate it but it doesn't seem like it's from the Taliban," Abdullah told a small group of reporters in Panjshir province. INCREASED VIOLENCE The election, the second in Afghanistan's short history as a democracy, is being held amid increased violence, with thousands of U.S. Marines and British troops launching major operations in southern Helmand early this month, sparking a Taliban backlash. Attacks across Afghanistan this year had already reached their worst level since the Taliban's austere Islamist government was ousted by U.S.-backed Afghan forces -- led by Fahim -- in 2001 and have escalated since the Helmand offensive began. The Helmand operations are the first under U.S. President Barack Obama's new regional strategy to defeat the Taliban and its Islamist allies and stabilize Afghanistan. Thousands of extra troops are being poured in, in part to secure the elections. The number of U.S. and NATO troops in the country has reached 101,000, according to the Pentagon. U.S. troop levels will rise from the current 62,000 to about 68,000 by year's end, more than double the 32,000 at the end of 2008. Britain is the second largest contributor with 9,000 troops, but mounting casualties during the latest offensive is straining British public opinion. 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