The Afghanistan NGO Safety Office Issue: 74 16-31 May 2011 ANSO and our donors accept no liability for the results of any activity conducted or omitted on the basis of this report. THE ANSO REPORT -Not for copy or sale- Inside this Issue COUNTRY SUMMARY Central Region 2-7 In the CENTRAL RE- Kumri while night raids and effectively to repel attacks 8-15 Northern Region GION, a lone BBIED man- ‘reintegration's’ occur else- in Mano Gai. In NAN- Western Region 16-18 aged to penetrate a military where. In JAWZJAN, GAHAR, NGO staff are hospital in KABUL, killing 6, AOG target cell phone arrested by IMF and threat- Eastern Region 19-24 despite a generally improved towers and establish vehicle ened by AOG while a sub- Southern Region 25-28 level of ANSF capacity. In check posts on the Shiber- stantial SVBIED kills 15 in WARDAK, the migration of gan-Sar-i-Pul road. In SAR- an attack on the Regional 29 ANSO Info Page Kuchis caused tension in I-PUL itself, AOGs target Training Centre. In NURI- Daymirdad while in Nirkh ANP and militias in Sayyad. STAN, a major AOG forc- IEA and HIG came to In the WESTERN RE- es captures Do Ab district. YOU NEED TO KNOW blows. In LOGAR, local GION, on May 30th a Up to 150 persons– includ- AOGs stole equipment from combination of suicide ing ANSF and civilians– • General Daoud killed in deminers while in PARWAN are killed in IMF airstrikes explosion in Takhar bombers, IEDs and infan- ANSF operations in the try engaged the PRT in HE- to recapture it. ANSF Ops • Herat PRT comes under Ghorband valley succeeded RAT city for more than six in Waygal are ineffective at sustained attack in temporarily clearing hours in what was likely an restoring it to GOA con- AOGs out. trol. In KHOST up to 4 • Mass civilian casualties in attempt to discredit the In the NORTHERN RE- transition process. In AOGs target ANP QRF in IMF airstrike in Do Ab, a 5 hr battle. In PAKTYA, Nuristan GION, an explosive device GHOR, NGO staff were detonated at high level gov- intimidated. on two sepa- there is a mass murder of • Ghazni, Khost and Paktya ernment meeting in rate occasions, by AOGs 36 local construction work- deteriorate severely TAKHAR on the 28th, kill- on the roads in, and in to, ers in Wuzu Zadran while in Gardez district 30 NGO ing the Northern Region Po- Chaghcharan while in Pasa- lice Commander General band armed local hooligans deminers are abducted and ANSO is supported by Daoud and five others. The assault NGO clinic staff . released unharmed. death of General Daoud may AOGs in Pasaband and In the SOUTHERN RE- forebode political turmoil in Taiwara continue a low lev- GION, with the exception the region and beyond. Else- el campaign of ambush and of NIMROZ, all provinces where the killing of women IED against ANSF. In continue to experience a in an IMF night raid sparked FARAH and BADGHIS high volume and velocity violent demonstrations in civilians continue to be of incidents. Notable Taloqan city. In FARYAB, killed by IEDs. events include, in PAK- intense IMF-ANSF/ AOG In the EASTERN RE- TYA, the assassination, by clashes in Almar are resulting GION, a BBIED targets an silenced pistol, of the dis- in internal displacement. In irregular force commander trict NDS chief and the Chahar Dara, KUNDUZ, an in Alishing, LAGHMAN. break up of a suicide cell in IMF soldier is killed by an In KUNAR an NGO clinic Yaha Khiel district and in IED while AOGs target mili- sustains collateral damage in HELMAND the attempted tias in Gorteppa, killing a highly unusual SVBIED assassination of the Provin- three. In BAGHLAN an strike on the IMF while cial Governor. IED targets ANP in Pul-i- ANSF and IMF collaborate THE ANSO REPORT Page 2 C ENTRAL REGION NGO Incidents KABUL KABUL Year to Date 3 50 This Report Period 0 Although AOGs conducted 40 several significant strikes in other regional centers recently, 30 Kabul this period—including a Herat City and Kandahar City 20 BBIED in Wazir Akbar Khan, in particular. A single BBIED 10 an RCIED against an ANP has proven both effective and 0 contractor in Musaye, a strike economical in Kabul, with the on the Surobi section of the full devastating potential of the highway to Jalalabad, and a less TTP appearing this cycle in KABUL AOG KABUL Crime significant night-time rocket Takhar. It is highly likely that nificant point of contention. NGOs should attack against Kabul Airport— AOG networks in Kabul City monitor eventual changes in AOG TTPs, the momentum remained with will continue to explore this noting IED deployment in particular. the ANSF. As in the previous tactical method in the future. cycle, ANSF-IMF authored The trends for 2011 comprise Observing the developments in other re- 80% of the security incidents in one suicide attack in Kabul gional centers, Kabul Province and the the province. City every three weeks. capital city constitute only a secondary area of interest for AOGs, with local considera- Around mid-day on the 21st of An additional number of recent May, a single BBIED attacker incidents require further assess- tions (such as the cost/benefit ratio) out- wearing an ANA uniform en- ment, in particular the two sep- weighed by AOG strategic and tactical fo- tered the Daud Khan Military arate cases of IED discoveries cus on other regions. AOG-instigated vio- Hospital (a MoD facility), in the Daud Khan Military lence also remains just one amongst many walked into the canteen where Hospital (days after the NGO risk factors in Central, the others the medical staff were having BBIED strike at the location), including the clashing ‘business’ interests lunch, and detonated his and inside the drug store in the of powerful warlords (Paghman, Deh charge. The blast left 6 fatalities Baba Shah Mina Hospital (a Sabz), the scope for public gatherings to and dozens injured. NDS fol- civilian GOA-operated facility turn violent (when grievances and frustra- lowed swiftly with a series of in PD 12). In the rural districts, tions of different kinds meet with the nec- arrests in Shakardara (all inside Surobi (Sari Tapa, Liwan), essary level of organization) and urban one qawm, or extended family). Shakardara (Boyazar), Pa- criminality due to the mere size of the pop- The strike, sanctioned by the ghman (Daraye Pashai), Deh ulation amassed in the capital. In addition, IEA, was executed with preci- Sabz (Tarakhel) and Bagrami political developments such as the killing sion along recently emerged (Alu Khel, Dashti Botak) wit- of general Daud in Takhar, the ‘northern’ TTPs elsewhere in the country: nessed a number of IMF- stream of legal opposition to the current the exploitation of soft-targets ANSF operations. Of note to establishment (centred around Panjshiri among the ANSF-IMF security NGOs, several sizeable discov- opposition figures), as well as the top-level personnel, the use of an ANA eries of stockpiled IED materi- negotiations among GOA representatives uniform (or even of a sleeping el and mines and arrests of and Kuchi & Hazara leaders in the after- agent), and the deployment of IED operatives have been per- math of Kuchi migration to Wardak were a solo suicide attacker. The use formed by ANSF and IMF in all factors debated by NGO security man- of a single operative stands out Surobi. The coming weeks may agers, although the impacts of any such in comparison with the simul- see the Surobi section of the developments on the NGO security para- taneous attacks recorded in Highway become a more sig- digm are yet to be seen. THE ANSO REPORT Page 3 NGO Incidents LOGAR Year to Date 2 LOGAR This Report Period 1 50 In the early morning of the 28th of 40 orded during the previous report- May, five armed AOG members 30 ing period. Major IMF-ANSF entered a local NGO demining 20 site in Dehi Manaka (Zarghun operations continued in the popu- 10 Shahr Area), where sixty deminers lation centers of Baraki Barak, were getting ready for the morn- Puli Alam and Charkh. A night 0 ing shift. The gunmen confiscated raid in the Sheikhan Area of 16 VHF handsets, leaving the site Charkh sparked several demon- LOGAR AOG LOGAR Crime shortly afterwards. Several IMF- strations (reaching up to the Charkh DAC), and resulted in a ANSF operations have targeted the school establishment. A correlation exists the area recently and reinforced series of additional arrests by se- curity forces. AOG concentrated between this attack and the presence of a par- checkpoints have been imple- ticular AOG with a local agenda, responsible mented on the main access alleys. on sporadic close-range strikes against security forces in Baraki for the bombing of the girls’ school in the The robbery came weeks after the same area in October 2010. Besides these two AOG destruction of a telecom- Barak and Puli Alam, while docu- mented IED deployment dropped attacks, targeting of school establishments in munication mast in the area, and Logar has become rare since 2008, as opposed shortly followed a series of ANSF from 5 cases in the previous peri- od (all neutralized) to 2 incidences to thirty cases recorded between 2006 and -IMF searches targeting IED cells. 2008. Also of note this cycle, Porak, the adja- rd (the mentioned RCIED blast in In the evening of the 23 of May, cent Niyazi, and Qalai Juma regularly wit- an effective RCIED strike left 1 Zarghun Shah, and an additional IED discovery on the district road nessed AOG elements moving with ease on IMF killed and 3 IMF injured on the highway in the late afternoon hours.