KABUL — Violence in Afghanistan is up nearly 40 percent over last year, said a U.N. report released Wednesday.
The U.N. report said that as of the end of August, there had been an average of 2,108 “security incidents” each month this year, a 39 percent increase compared with the comparable period in 2010.
The average number of suicide attacks monthly, 12, remained unchanged, the report said, but more of those attacks were complex and coordinated, involving more than a lone bomber, the report said. The monthly average of three such complex attacks this year is 50 percent higher than the number for the like period in 2010.
Also Wednesday, a U.S. official said an Illinois plumber was the CIA contractor killed during a shooting at an agency facility in Kabul. Jay Henigan, 61, of Sycamore, was shot Sunday evening by an Afghan worker who was providing security to the CIA facility in an attack that also wounded another American, the official said.
