Mosque bombing further highlights growing troubles in Afghanistan

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KABUL (AFP) - Three and a half years after the fall of the Taliban, a suicide bombing at the funeral of a top cleric who spoke out against the ousted regime has highlighted mounting insecurity in Afghanistan.

The attack in the Taliban birthplace of Kandahar apparently targeted the visiting police chief of the capital of Kabul, who died along with his bodyguards, and will raise fresh concerns that the Islamic hardliners are staging a comeback.

Coupled with the recent kidnapping of an Italian aid worker plus huge anti-US protests that left 15 people dead, almost every day casts a new shadow over the success story being touted by the United States in contrast to Iraq.

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But after a quiet winter, unrest has returned with a vengeance on three fronts, although without yet taking the form of a coordinated offensive ahead of Afghanistan's first parliamentary elections due in September.

The first front involves Taliban rebels, their Al-Qaeda allies and other Islamic militants concentrated mainly in the south, southeast and east of Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050601/wl_afp/afghanistanattacksanalysis_050601134042

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1. another summer of 'unrest'