But now they are being deployed against ordinary citizens, students and university professors. “It’s been three months since they promised an investigation, but there’s been nothing. Initially, sticky bombs were used to target senior officials and army or police officers. “I want to know how it’s possible that a car with a governmental number plate gets blown up with a magnetic bomb and the government doesn’t even know who did it or how,” Mr. Mayar was left wondering why his father was targeted - and how someone managed to attach an explosive device to his vehicle despite government bodyguards and security precautions. Like the loved ones of so many other bombing victims, Mr. Abdul Baqi Amin, was riding in a ministry vehicle that had been parked in a ministry parking lot the night before, his son said. “The situation is so unpredictable - you don’t know what will happen tomorrow when you get into your car,” said Aiman Mayar, 22, whose father, a Ministry of Education official, was killed by a magnetic bomb in Kabul three months ago. The special representative of Iran in Afghanistan has said that the new rulers of Afghanistan do not have enough forces at border posts and Iran should. The capital now feels like a city under siege, with something as prosaic as a commute to work a source of dread, and every car on the street a potential deathtrap. Vehicles are often pinned in traffic jams, where attackers on motorbikes or passing pedestrians can ease past and furtively attach a magnetic bomb. Kabul’s chaotic traffic works to bombers’ advantage. But the intensified pace of such attacks this year has shifted the security equation in Kabul, forcing anyone connected to the government to reassess how and when they use their vehicles. Magnetic bombs have been used in Afghanistan since the early years of the insurgency around 2005, as well as in Iraq.
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