Apart from the nearly 130 suicide bombings so far this year-- as high as in2006--the most significant developments in respect of martyrdom operations werethe repeated demonstration by the Neo Taliban of its ability to carry outsuicide attacks in Kabul itself and the better training of its suicide bombers--whowere mostly Pashtuns recruited in the Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan and amongthe tribals of Pakistan's Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). In 2006and in the earlier months of 2007, the suicide bombers, out of nervousness, wereblowing themselves up before reaching the vicinity of their targets, therebycausing more civilian fatalities than fatalities among Afghan government forcesand government servants. Better training post-June,2007 is reflected in theirability to hold action till they reached the vicinity of the intended targetsand then only blow themselves up. As a result, they are registering moresuccessful martyrdom operations than during the pre-June,2007, period.