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Afghanistan: Taliban killing civilians with IEDs

Posted 20 July 2011 5:52 GMT

Nick Fielding reports that civilian deaths in Afghanistan increased by 15 per cent in 2011, pointing out that the dramatic growth was mainly due to the use of landmine-like improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by the Taliban.

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Written byAdil Nurmakov

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