The New York Times is reporting that a suicide bomber wearing an Afghan military uniform “killed at least 27 people, including civilians, making it one of the deadliest suicide bombings in Afghanistan this year.”

Over the past year, coalition forces have lost ground in Afghanistan, as the conflict has taken a back seat to the war in Iraq. Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, recently admitted that “security in his country had ‘definitely deteriorated.’”

According to a United Nations report, in the first eight months of 2007, “Afghanistan had suffered a 69 percent increase in suicide bombings over the same period last year…There have already been 100 bombings this year, killing at least 290 people, according to Afghan and international officials. A record 123 were carried out in 2006, inflicting some 305 deaths.”

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