From ANI London, July 5: The Governor of Afghanistan's Musa Qala district, which lies to the north of the country's Helmand province, Mullah Abdul Salaam, has blamed the Pakistanis and the Iranians for attacks on British troops. Salaam, a former Taliban commander, gave a warning yesterday that infiltrators from Pakistan and Iran were deliberately attempting to escalate the conflict in Afghanistan. He said that the insurgency attacks against coalition forces, which have accounted for the worst coalition casualty figures in a single month since the war began, were now principally the work of outsiders rather than the Taleban. "They come from Pakistan, they come from Iran," Mullah Salaam said in an interview with The Times and two other newspapers. "It is like a sickness that everybody is doing suicide bombs. There is nothing...
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