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Taliban: Attacks to warn NATO

Dozens dead in Kandahar blasts

By NOOR KHAN AND KAY JOHNSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 5:07 a.m.

Credit: The Associated Press
 An Afghan policeman stands near shops damaged in an explosion outside the police headquarters in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday.

The Taliban on Sunday called their deadly bomb attacks on the southern city of Kandahar a warning to NATO’s top general that the insurgents were ready for the war’s next major offensive in their heartland.

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