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It is just an hour's drive south-west of Kabul on Afghanistan's main highway before you start to see dramatic evidence of how the insurgency is closing in on the capital.
The first thing to notice are the holes in the road - the tarmac ripped up by bombs - which the traffic has to carefully veer around.
Then it is the burned-out skeletons of trucks left by the side of the road, or some still standing where they were ambushed and burned - an obvious reminder of how security so close to Kabul has been steadily deteriorating.
Highway One was a triumph for Afghanistan's new found freedom from the Taleban.
Built at record speed with international money, it was an example of what was to follow in the rebuilding and redevelopment of a country at war for almost three decades.
Now it is almost impassable in places as buses loaded high with goods and people, or convoys of containers with supplies for international forces have to negotiate the damage and the debris.
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How eery are those words? Once before I've read of the relentless advance of the Taleban, firstly in 1994 when they overthrew the govt of Afghanistan and now against NATO the attacks come to the heart of the country.
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