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Captured al-Qaeda fighters threaten suicide Guard outside the
Mirwais hospital in Kandahar Security at the hospital has been
stepped up Heavy security surrounds a hospital ward in the
southern Afghan city of Kandahar, where nine members of Osama
Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network are being treated for gunshot and
shrapnel wounds.  The heavily armed fighters - thought to be
from Sudan or Yemen - are threatening to blow themselves up if
anyone other than medical staff approaches them.  It is unclear
how they managed to smuggle pistols and grenades into the
hospital.  The men were part of a larger group of fighters who
arrived at the hospital when the city was still under Taleban
control.  Man at shop in Kandahar Life is returning to normal in
Kandahar after the Taleban left  T