De Guardian bericht: 'Taliban tactics fuel anti-western feeling Iraq-style suicide attacks on civilians harden opposition to troops in Afghanistan.In Kandahar hospital Muhammad Gul, a wizened, half-blind 75-year-old, kept a silent vigil for his brother Sharif, who lay on a plastic mattress wheezing violently and moaning for help.
The bus exploded as it passed their cramped shop on the edge of the city. Gul missed the blast because he was fetching water. Stumbling back he found Sharif lying in a pool of blood with shards of hot metal in his chest.
"The people who did this want money and they want power," Gul said, his frail voice rising in anger and frustration. "And they want the foreigners out."
The Taliban bomb that tore through a minibus carrying Afghan workers to Kandahar airbase on Thursday killed eight people, injured 24 and seemed to signal a fresh tactical twist, one inspired by Iraq.
Attacks in Kandahar, once the fundamentalists' spiritual home, now seem to echo violence on the streets of Baghdad 12 or 18 months earlier. A year ago the first wave of suicide bombings, a previously rare tactic, hit the southern city. Then the Taliban targeted police, soldiers and pro-government clerics, sometimes through gory beheadings.
This week's bloodshed marked the first major attack on local employees - cleaners, drivers and translators - at the base where hundreds of British, Canadian and American soldiers are stationed.' Lees verder:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1799484,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704
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