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Afghanistan's Bloodiest Year
KABUL — The year 2008 has proved the worst year yet in war-ravaged Afghanistan since the US-led invasion with an ever increase in violence and attacks, the defense minister admitted in a bleak assessment.
"The level of violence has increased every year and 2008 has been the worst of all," General Abdul Rahim Wardak told reporters on Tuesday, October 14.
Without giving figures, Wardak described 2008 as the bloodiest since the Taliban regime was ousted by US-led forces in 2001, reported Agence France Presse (AFP).
Nine people, including two children aged about 10, were killed when a bomb blew up a bus in the southern province of Uruzgan.
Dost Mohammad Arighistani, head of the government's labor and social affairs department for the southern province of Kandahar, was killed in his car with his bodyguard as he was travelling to work.
A bomb blew up a vehicle carrying foreign soldiers in the east of the country and killed three.
Some 239 foreign troopers, including 136, have been killed in Afghanistan so far this year, more than the whole of last year, according to the iCasualties.org which monitors the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
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Without giving figures, Wardak described 2008 as the bloodiest since the Taliban regime was ousted by US-led forces in 2001, reported Agence France Presse (AFP).
Nine people, including two children aged about 10, were killed when a bomb blew up a bus in the southern province of Uruzgan.
Dost Mohammad Arighistani, head of the government's labor and social affairs department for the southern province of Kandahar, was killed in his car with his bodyguard as he was travelling to work.
A bomb blew up a vehicle carrying foreign soldiers in the east of the country and killed three.
Some 239 foreign troopers, including 136, have been killed in Afghanistan so far this year, more than the whole of last year, according to the iCasualties.org which monitors the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
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