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De US heeft blijkbaar niets geleerd in Vietnam.
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Alarming' rise in Afghan violence, says UN
In a quarterly report to the UN Security Council, it said roadside bomb attacks rose by 94%, compared with the same period in 2009.
It also said Afghanistan's overall security situation "has not improved" since the UN's last report in March.
Despite all this, the electoral commission had successfully registered more than 2,500 political candidates - including 400 women - for polls due in September, the report said.
It also noted that both the Afghan police and army were slightly ahead of interim targets for beefing up their ranks.
But assassinations had risen 45%, with the Taliban and others increasingly successful at killing Afghan officials, the report said.
It added that sophisticated suicide bombings had doubled from last year to roughly two per month.
"The shift to more complex suicide attacks demonstrates a growing capability of the local terrorist networks linked to al-Qaeda," the report said.
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