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Afghan police: Suicide bomber kills 9 in northwest
By RAHIM FAIEZ,Associated Press -
Friday, November 5
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KABUL, Afghanistan – A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded bazaar in northwest Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least nine people and wounding 30 others, police said.
The attack targeted the head of the Faryab provincial council, Mullah Rahmatullah Turkistani, police chief Khalil Andarabi said. Turkistani, who was wounded in the blast, regularly visits the bazaar in Khwaja Sabz Post district on Fridays to hear citizens' concerns and dine at a local restaurant, Andarabi said.
"Witnesses told police that they saw a teenage boy walking in the bazaar," Andarabi said. "He had a book in his hands and sometimes he was reading. He was probably waiting for his target to come."
When Turkistani arrived, the teenager walked toward him and detonated his cache of explosives, killing an Afghan policeman and eight civilians and wounding 30 more, Andarabi said. Witnesses identified the bomber through his body parts found at the scene.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack as an "anti-Islamic" act, but stressed it would not halt his government's efforts to promote peace and stability in Afghanistan.
Associated Press Television News footage from the scene showed yellow and red apples pockmarked with shrapnel lying in pools of blood and a man's shoe.
Turkistani's pickup truck, which took the brunt of the blast, was pitted with holes and body parts of the bomber lay on a blanket nearby. An ambulance removed the victims' bodies, covered with pink-and-yellow blankets, from the scene.
Attacks in the north and west of the country _ though not militarily significant _ show that violence is rising across wide swaths of Afghanistan even as the U.S. and its allies mount a major effort to turn the tide of the nearly 9-year-old war in the south.
While Taliban influence in the north and west is not as pervasive as in the movement's southern heartland, the insurgency has been slowly expanding its presence in areas such as Kunduz, Faryab and Baghlan since 2007, mostly among Pashtuns who are a minority in northern parts of the country.
Meanwhile, NATO said three of its service members were killed on Friday.
The coalition said two service members were killed by insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan, and a third in the east. NATO did not provide further details or the service members' nationalities.
The deaths bring the total number of NATO fatalities in Afghanistan this year to 615.
Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan have been steadily increasing this year, said analyst Sami Kovanen of Kabul-based Indicium Consulting, a security analysis firm. Earlier this year, attacks were up by 40 percent, he said. That rose to 80 percent over the summer, he said, adding that attacks since Sept. 18 parliamentary elections are up 120 percent compared to the same period last year.
The spike in violence comes despite an aggressive capture-or-kill strategy aimed at taking out Taliban leaders, the results of which are still unclear. Kovanen said there were reports the strategy had demoralized some Taliban fighters in the midlevel and lower ranks and disrupted the flow of money and supplies.
In the latest such operation, an Afghan and NATO force captured the Haqqani network's shadow governor for Spera district in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province during an overnight operation.
The shadow governor had coordinated the facilitation of foreign fighters from Pakistan and directed ambush attacks in the district, NATO said.
The Haqqani network is an autonomous wing of the Taliban with close ties to al-Qaida. Its leadership is based in Pakistan.
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Associated Press writer Katharine Houreld contributed to this report.
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