SECURITY IN AFGHANISTAN DETERIORATING

"Afghanistan is more dangerous than it has ever been during this war, with security deteriorating in recent months... Large parts of the country that were once completely safe, like most of the northern provinces, now have a substantial Taliban presence... Unarmed government employees can no longer travel safely in 30 percent of the country’s 368 districts... and there are districts deemed too dangerous to visit in all but one of the country’s 34 provinces... With one attack after another, the Taliban and their insurgent allies have degraded security in almost every part of the country... The Afghan N.G.O. Safety Office says that by almost every metric it has, Afghanistan is more dangerous now than at any time since 2001..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/asia/12afghan.html?_r=2