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A slow but steady deterioration of security situations in Iraq and Afghanistan
Increasing insurgency and Jihadist attacks have deteriorated the securities in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a slow process of deterioration but there is no sign of any improvement.
The chief of al Qaeda's Iraqi branch, in an audio message posted on a jihadist Web site and addressed to the movement's central leader Osama bin Laden, says he is well and leading the fighting. The voice on the audiotape -- allegedly that of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- says that he wants to allay any fears spread by the news of his injury, which he says were minor wounds, and that jihadists continue to fight in Iraq. The recording was dated May 27.
Fighting between Taliban militiamen and Afghan forces in southeastern Afghanistan broke out after rebels ambushed a military patrol. The fighting left 11 insurgents and one Afghan soldier dead. A spokesman for the local government in Arghandab district said three Taliban fighters had been captured, including a district-level commander. U.S. forces also rushed to the scene, but the rebels had already fled. Meanwhile, Mullah Latif Hakimi, an alleged spokesman for the jihadist movement, claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to The Associated Press and said that only two Taliban militants had died while 11 Afghan soldiers were killed.
The headquarters of NATO's 8.000-member security contingent in the Afghan capital of Kabul were hit by a rocket, and another explosion in Kabul wounded seven people. A spokeswoman said the rocket struck military barracks at the International Security Assistance Force base in central Kabul, near the U.S. Embassy and other diplomatic facilities. Police chief Gen. Mohammad Akbar said the first attack occurred a little after midnight, while the second explosion took place after dawn, when a bomb attached to a bicycle on a road near a U.S. military base and a U.N. compound went off as a taxi passed by.
An Iraqi aircraft with four U.S. citizens and an Iraqi on board crashed in eastern Iraq, the U.S. military announced May 30.
Two suicide bombers killed 30 Iraqi security forces troops and wounded 100 others in Al Hillah, Iraq, Polish military officials said May 30. Iraqi troops were protesting outside a police station when two bombers hit the crowd in succession. Al Qaeda in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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