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June 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Late on Saturday, a remote-controlled device was detonated as a police patrol vehicle drove by in the Chaparhar district of Nangarhar province, which is located 154 kilometers (95 miles) east of Kabul, provincial governor’s spokesman Abdul Zia Ahmadzai said.
The injured policemen were later taken to a nearby hospital, where one of them is in critical condition.
Roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are by far the most lethal weapon Taliban militants use against Afghan forces, foreign troops, and civilians.
The homemade explosives accounted for half of the about 1,500 civilian deaths in the first six months of 2011, according to the United Nations.
Insecurity continues to rise across Afghanistan despite the presence of about 130,000 US-led forces in the war-torn country.
The United Nations announced on February 4 that 2011 was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians. The death toll rose eight percent compared to the year before and was roughly double the figure for 2007.
Overall, 3,021 civilians died in violence related to the war and 4,507 were wounded in 2011. Of the deaths, the UN attributed 77 percent to militant attacks and 14 percent to US-led foreign troops and Afghan forces. Nine percent of the cases were classified as unknown.
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