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PAGE A13 REBELS AMBUSH AFGHAN WORKERS Taliban insurgents ambushed a group of road construction workers and their security guards, killing 18 of the guards and wounding seven in one of the worst attacks in Afghanistan in months.

According to reports of refugees and human rights workers, Taliban soldiers killed as many as 6,000 civilians when they entered the city in 1997 in revenge for the death of thousands of their own the year before.

But according to two Uzbek soldiers who were witnesses and to an account that "Dave" gave to Red Cross workers, a Taliban prisoner who was either wired with explosives or clutching a grenade ran over to Mr. Spann and embraced him, and they were both killed in an explosion.

An incident report by international aid workers suggested that Taliban fleeing Kabul had indeed stashed weapons in the area, although it also said the Taliban had subsequently moved on, leaving only unusable weaponry.

Some are wondering whether to pull out altogether.Most of the problems facing the aid workers concern the Taliban's attitude to women.

MANY aid organisations in Kabul have suspended their programmes after the arrest of two French aid workers by the Taliban, the Afghan capital's new rulers.

'We want to have possibilities to work.' " Aid workers and the Taliban have together learned a valuable lesson in recent years, Mr. de Mul said.

Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer are the two American aid workers whom the Taliban claim to have caught "red handed," foisting their Christian faith on Afghan Muslims in a conspiracy to entice them away from Islam.

In some of the states included in the study, violence against health workers, for example, Taliban threats to female nurses and midwives in Afghanistan, contributed to the further distortion of the health workforce.

Foreign relief workers have left Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan, while Taliban forces have seized United Nations warehouses and relief supplies.

Abdul Hafiz, an Afghan accused of killing a Red Cross worker at a Taliban roadblock in 2003, told a military officer that he had the perfect alibi.