| List of major suicide attacks in Afghanistan The Associated Press
09/08/2007
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Major suicide attacks in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001: Sept. 8 Car bomber rams U.S. convoy in Kabul, killing 16 others, including two American soldiers. Sept. 4 Suicide car bombing kills 1 British soldier, 4 Afghans in Kabul. Aug. 28 Suicide bomber targeting an ex-police chief in Helmand provincial capital of Lashkar Gah kills 21 civilians. Aug. 3 Suicide car bombing near Canadian military vehicles in town market in Kandahar province kills 21 civilians. Jan. 16 A man with explosives strapped to his body drives a motorbike into a crowd watching a wrestling match in an Afghan-Pakistani border town in Kandahar province and kills 21 people. Jan. 15 A car bomb slams into a Canadian military convoy in Kandahar city, killing two passers-by and a senior Canadian diplomat. Jan. 5 A militant blows himself up in a town in central Uruzgan province during a supposedly secret visit by the U.S. ambassador, killing 10 Afghans. Nov. 14, 2005 Twin suicide car bombings target NATO peacekeepers in Kabul, killing a German soldier and eight Afghans. Oct. 10, 2005 Two suicide attackers explode bombs in the southern city of Kandahar, killing three people. Sept. 28, 2005 A militant on a motorbike kills nine Afghan soldiers when he blows himself up outside an army training center in Kabul. June 1, 2005 A suspected al-Qaida fighter detonates explosives strapped to his body in a mosque in Kandahar city, killing 20 worshippers. May 8, 2005 A militant kills a U.N. worker from Myanmar and an Afghan in an attack on an Internet cafe in Kabul. Dec. 29, 2003 Five Afghan security officers are killed when a man they arrested blows himself up in Kabul. June 7, 2003 A taxi packed with explosives blows up near a bus carrying German peacekeepers as they were driving to Kabul airport to fly home, killing four soldiers and an Afghan.
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