Reuters: Suicide attacks change life in Afghan capital

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Suicide attacks change life in Afghan capital

Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:19 PM ET

By Sayed Salahuddin

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's drivers are some of the most fearless in the world. But a string of suicide attacks on foreign military convoys has changed all that.

Afraid of being caught up in a Taliban attack, they now slow down or veer off the road to avoid the convoys.

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Still not as common in Afghanistan as in Iraq, the increasing suicide attacks this year have killed about 200 people, mostly civilians, according to NTO, compared with 50-60 last year.

Dozens of people have been killed in six suicide attacks in as many weeks in the crowded and traffic-snarled streets of the capital Kabul. There was only one suicide attack in the city in the same time last year.

Some Kabulis have stopped sending their children to school.

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