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Byline: Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau
The village was in Taliban country southwest of Kabul. The visit had been arranged through reliable Taliban sources. Our aim was to speak to volunteers who had trained to become suicide bombers; we hoped to shed light on an increasingly deadly feature of the war in Afghanistan.
At a mud-brick house, a guerrilla showed us a sack he said contained a pair of suicide vests: "If these jackets go off, anyone within 100 meters will be killed," he warned. As it happened, the bombs killed no one that day. But Taliban leaders are counting on these weapons to drive America out of Afghanistan. Once virtually unknown here, suicide bombings are becoming an ever more common tactic. In his latest propaganda video, the Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah Akhund brags of having 1,800 bombers at the ready. Others question ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Suicide Offensive; Face to face with the Taliban's new favorite...