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Insurgent activity rising in Afghanistan
• By JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press WriterKABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgent activity in Afghanistan has risen fourfold this year, and militants now launch more than 600 attacks a month, a rising wave of violence that has resulted in 3,700 deaths in 2006, a bleak new report released Sunday found