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FACTBOX-Key facts about suicide bombings in Afghanistan Fri 6 Oct 2006 10:52:36 BST Oct 6 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of police headquarters in the eastern Afghan town of Khost on Friday, killing himself and a policeman. The attack came a day before the fifth anniversary of the start of the U.S. intervention that overthrew the Taliban government in late 2001. Here are some facts on suicide bombings recorded in Afghanistan since January 2005. KEY FIGURES: Attacks: 72 Attacks in 2005: 17 Attacks in 2006: 55 Casualties (not including suicide bombers): 239 Wounded: 324 Attacks without casualties: 34/72 Attacks where bombs go off accidentally: 7/72 Attackers pre-empted by police: 2 WORST ATTACKS: - August 3, 2006: The worst attack to date occurs in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, when twenty-one civilians are killed when a suicide bomber rams his car into a NATO convoy on the main highway. - June 1, 2005: The second worst attack occurs, when a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform kills 20 people, including a police chief, in an attack on a mosque in Kandahar. BLOODIEST DAY: - At least 26 people die in two separate suicide attacks in Spin Boldak and Kandahar on Jan. 17, 2006. MOST FREQUENTLY HIT AREAS: - Kandahar: 33 attacks - Kabul: 11 attacks - Herat/Khost: 4 attacks Source: Reuters; [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
