Afghan Suicide Attacks Rise, U.N. Report Shows

Watched tonight a CNN report on the resurgence of the Taliban, and how they are funding their rebirth with bumper Poppy crops, which ends up as Heroin on the streets of America and Europe. I had to laugh at the pathetic attempt at eradicating a crop that tragically keeps the miserably Afghans from going hungry. What is ironic is that the Taliban had eradicated poppy farming completely before we got to Afghanistan. The Taliban and al Qaeda are becoming rich under our very noses. The U.S., since NATO does not support eradication, does not have the manpower or resources to defeat in Afghanistan the enemy that attacked us on 9-11. What makes it worse, the leader of the movement for that tragic attack 6 years ago, feels free enough to taunt us with the recent release of that video. We can thank George Bush for this outrage:

Taliban insurgents carried out 103 suicide bombings in Afghanistan in the first eight months of 2007, a 69 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a United Nations report that is expected to be issued publicly on Monday. The record number of attacks killed more than 200 people, 80 percent of them civilians.

The report also found no evidence that suicide bombing techniques were migrating from Iraq to Afghanistan, a major fear of Afghan and American officials.

Still, the statistics showed that Afghanistan endured the world’s second-highest number of suicide attacks both in 2006 and so far in 2007, according to Mohammed M. Hafez, a visiting political science professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, who tracks suicide bombings.

Afghanistan trailed only Iraq in those years. He said that 322 suicide bombings were carried out in Iraq from January through the end of August this year and 179 occurred in 2006.