Darwin picks up the slack for NATO. Mercury reports:

A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say.

It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on Tuesday when his bomb-filled waistcoat exploded as he was putting it on in the southern town of Lashkar Gah.

My only question? will the New York Times cite this as “evidence of increasing Taliban violence” or “a further example of the Americans’ failure to lend Afghans support for basic needs such as sound structures and new clothes”?