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12:36 PM
US report says al-Qaida gaining strength in Afghanistan
Al-Qaida has rebuilt some of its pre-Sept. 11 capabilities from remote hiding places in Pakistan, and terrorist attacks in neighboring Afghanistan increased 16 percent last year, the Bush administration said Wednesday.
The State Department's annual terrorism report says that attacks in Iraq dipped slightly between 2006 and 2007, but they still accounted for 60 percent of worldwide terrorism fatalities.
More than 22,000 people were killed by terrorists around the world in 2007, 8 percent more than in 2006, although the overall number of attacks fell, the report says.
About 13,600 noncombatants were killed in 2007 in Iraq, the report says, adding the high number could be attributed to a 50 percent increase in the number of suicide bombings. Suicide car bombings were up 40 percent and suicide bombings outside of vehicles climbed 90 percent over 2006, it says.
"The ability of these attackers to penetrate large concentrations of people and then detonate their explosives may account for the increase in lethality of bombings in 2007," the report says.
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Do the 13,600 'noncombatants' killed, most likely by our valiant 'troops' count for part of the 22,000 figure? I'll bet not given the source of the information. Either 22,000 is a fantasy figure or I'm sure missing a lot of news. Or the news is missing me, or some fucking thing.
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