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 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle plowed into a guard post Tuesday at a police headquarters in this former Taliban stronghold, killing 13 people and wounding 11 — most of them Afghan police.
The attack in Kandahar was the latest in a series of bombings in southern Afghanistan that has raised new worries about the nascent democracy's future. The blasts may also signal the militants, who once rarely used suicide missions, might be copying tactics of insurgents in Iraq.
The Taliban were behind the explosion, said Qari Mohammed Yousaf, a purported spokesman for the hard-line militants. His claim could not be independently verified.
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