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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/afghan-bank-attack-new-tactic.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Smoke rises from a bank in Jalalabad, east of Kabul in Afghanistan (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-afghan-bank-attack-new-tactic.jpg" alt="Smoke rises from a bank in Jalalabad, east of Kabul in Afghanistan (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>An attack in which five suicide bombers dressed in security force uniforms stormed a bank in eastern Afghanistan and killed 38 people is a sign that insurgents are increasingly going after &#8220;soft targets,&#8221; the government has said.</p>
<p>The bombing &#8211; just as many members of the Afghan security forces were collecting their pay &#8211; was evidence that militants are seeking to attack places that are not heavily barricaded and fortified government buildings or military compounds, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary.</p>
<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, we see that there&#8217;s a change of tactic in the terrorist attacks and they are targeting soft targets,&#8221; Mr Bashary said at a news conference in Kabul.</p>
<p>Two recent attacks in Kabul also reflected the tactical change, he said. A suicide bomber attacked a supermarket in Kabul on January 28, killing eight civilians, and one attacked a Western-style shopping mall on February 14, killing two security guards.</p>
<p>&#8220;In these kind of places &#8211; like city centre in Kabul and Kabul Bank in Jalalabad &#8211; these are all areas where mostly people are going to do daily business,&#8221; he said. &#8220;No-one would expect that they would attack such places like a bank or shopping mall,&#8221; Mr Bashary said.</p>
<p>Among those killed in Saturday&#8217;s attack on a branch of Kabul Bank in Jalalabad were 21 members of the Afghan national security forces. The other 17 killed were civilians. A total of 71 people, mostly civilians, were injured, he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Five armed suicide bombers entered the Kabul Bank building and started shooting,&#8221; Mr Bashary said. &#8220;The incident happened while Afghan security forces were there to get their monthly salaries. That is why the casualties were so high.&#8221;</p>
<p>Since no-one is allowed inside the bank with weapons, none of the Afghan policemen or soldiers collecting their pay had weapons to defend themselves.</p>
<p>He said bank guards tried to prevent the militants from entering the building. A gun battle broke out between the guards and the militants, who were all wearing suicide vests.</p>
<p>During the fight, four of the attackers were killed and their suicide vests detonated. The fifth suicide attacker &#8211; a man from North Waziristan in Pakistan &#8211; was arrested and his vest was defused, Mr Bashary said.</p>
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