The Associated Press reports:
"A suicide car bomber killed 38 Afghans at a crowded market Monday,
pushing the death toll from two days of militant bombings to about 140. The
marketplace blast, which targeted a Canadian army convoy, came a day
after the country's deadliest insurgent attack since a U.S. invasion
defeated the Taliban regime in late 2001. The toll from that bombing in a crowd watching a dog fight rose to more than 100.
"The back-to-back blasts in the southern province of Kandahar could be a sign insurgents are now willing to risk high civilian casualties while attacking security forces. ...Militants in Afghanistan have generally sought to avoid targeting civilians, unlike insurgents in Iraq's war...."
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