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...recent upsurge in violence was punctuated by a suicide bombing last week that killed 20 people, including Kabul's chief of police, during a funeral procession at the Abdul Rab Akhundzada Mosque in Kandahar. The horrific attack was notable not only for its death toll: the funeral was for Maulavi Abdul Fayaz, a prominent anti-Taliban cleric murdered by suspected Taliban gunmen days earlier, and the bomb?a mixture of explosives and ball bearings?was more sophisticated than those used in previous suicide blasts. "This was a very professional effort and way beyond the capability that we have seen previously...
...Already, some Mazar residents are muttering that the Taliban, as a united and centralized government, got some things right. Former judge Maulavi Mohammed Afzal says, "The root of their control was just terror?they would kill five people at a time without trial?but some people did support and admire them because they did cut crime." Aid workers are already finding the post-Taliban regime more cumbersome to deal with: they need to negotiate with several different commanders to get anything done. "They are like small businesses," says Linda van Weyenburg of M?decins Sans Fronti?res. "Everything becomes more complicated...
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