Alleged bomb masterminds arrested
Jan. 29, 2006. 01:20 PM
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Seven Afghans and two Pakistanis allegedly plotting suicide attacks were arrested during a series of raids in a city in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said.
Two vehicles laden with explosives were seized during the raids in Kandahar, which has suffered a spate of suicide attacks in recent months, Gov. Asadullah Khalid said.
He said all night people arrested were suspected members of the Taliban and allegedly planned to carry out an unspecified number of suicide attacks against U.S.-led coalition forces and government targets.
The governor declined to identify the detainees or give other details about the raids.
The arrests came the same day Afghan security forces set up checkpoints on all roads leading into Kandahar and started searching vehicles entering and exiting the city. Six other checkpoints were set up inside the city, causing massive traffic jams.
Earlier this month, President Hamid Karzai dispatched police reinforcements to Kandahar to crack down on insurgents.
Since late September, some 20 suicide bombings have racked Kandahar and other southern provinces.
One of the bombings, a Jan. 15 suicide attack on a Canadian military convoy, claimed the life of Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry and seriously wounded three Canadian soldiers.
Suicide attacks used to be relatively rare in Afghanistan and the new tactic has reinforced fears that the insurgents are mimicking tactics seen in Iraq.
12:40ET 29-01-06
In light of all the outrage and "moral" indignancy expressed by all the various righteous groups and individuals at the continous and consistent ILLEGAL detention and HORRIFIC human rights abuses grieviously and sadistically prepetrated against the INNOCENT freedom fighters by the ILLEGAL and IMMORAL American Adminstration, such equal outrage and moral idignancy should be expressed with the same ferocity at the ILLEGAL detention of these heroic freedom fighters just captured.
Jan. 29, 2006. 01:20 PM
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Seven Afghans and two Pakistanis allegedly plotting suicide attacks were arrested during a series of raids in a city in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said.
Two vehicles laden with explosives were seized during the raids in Kandahar, which has suffered a spate of suicide attacks in recent months, Gov. Asadullah Khalid said.
He said all night people arrested were suspected members of the Taliban and allegedly planned to carry out an unspecified number of suicide attacks against U.S.-led coalition forces and government targets.
The governor declined to identify the detainees or give other details about the raids.
The arrests came the same day Afghan security forces set up checkpoints on all roads leading into Kandahar and started searching vehicles entering and exiting the city. Six other checkpoints were set up inside the city, causing massive traffic jams.
Earlier this month, President Hamid Karzai dispatched police reinforcements to Kandahar to crack down on insurgents.
Since late September, some 20 suicide bombings have racked Kandahar and other southern provinces.
One of the bombings, a Jan. 15 suicide attack on a Canadian military convoy, claimed the life of Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry and seriously wounded three Canadian soldiers.
Suicide attacks used to be relatively rare in Afghanistan and the new tactic has reinforced fears that the insurgents are mimicking tactics seen in Iraq.
12:40ET 29-01-06
In light of all the outrage and "moral" indignancy expressed by all the various righteous groups and individuals at the continous and consistent ILLEGAL detention and HORRIFIC human rights abuses grieviously and sadistically prepetrated against the INNOCENT freedom fighters by the ILLEGAL and IMMORAL American Adminstration, such equal outrage and moral idignancy should be expressed with the same ferocity at the ILLEGAL detention of these heroic freedom fighters just captured.
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