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by Muhammad Hassan Khetab onJul 24, 2012 - 16:45
KABUL (PAN): The Afghan spy service on Tuesday said that 241 would-be suicide bombers had been arrested in different parts of the country over the past two years.
The detainees included those who wanted to assassinate Vice-Presidents Mohammad Qasim Fahim and Mohammad Karim Khalili and other national figures.
A National Directorate of Security (NDS) spokesman said former jihadi leaders, cabinet ministers and parliamentarians were also on the hit-lists of the detainees.
Shafiqullah Tahiri accused regional countries of aiding and sending suicide bombers to Afghanistan. Six group suicide attacks, planned in Pakistan, were recently foiled by intelligence operatives, he claimed.
Three key associates of Maulvi Nooruddin, a Taliban-designated governor for northern Takhar province, were among the five insurgents detained with four suicide vests, he said.
A seven-member group had been detained in Kunduz on charges of disruptive activities, with remote-controlled bombs and suicide vests, the spokesman concluded.
Source: 241 would-be bombers held in 2 years | Pajhwok Afghan News
Regional intelligence networks backing insurgents, NDS
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Afghan security forces say major hotel attack foiled
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:51 GMT
Source: reuters // Reuters
By Mirwais Harooni
Kabul, July 24 (Reuters) - Afghan security forces have foiled a plan by insurgents to attack a major international hotel in Kabul, intelligence officials said on Tuesday, blocking what would have been the second such attack in the capital in as many months.
Describing the plan as "major and aggressive", a spokesman for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the attack could have caused carnage, although he refused to give details.
"Terrorists planned to launch an attack on a five-star hotel. We avoided the assassination of scores of our people and the destruction of an important installation," said Shafiqullah Tahiri, the deputy spokesman for the NDS.
Investigations into the attack were continuing, he said.
Taliban gunmen in June stormed a small resort hotel and restaurant at Qargha lake, on Kabul's outskirts, taking hostages and killing 20 people with rocket-propelled grenades, suicide vests and assault rifles.
Afghan police and NATO-led international forces ended the attack after a 12-hour siege, but it again showed the ability of insurgents to stage high-profile raids even as NATO nations prepare to withdraw most of their combat troops by the end of 2014 and leave Afghans to lead the fight.
In April, Taliban fired rockets into the Star Hotel near President Hamid Karzai's presidential palace during an attack on the city's central business area, while in June 2011 insurgents attacked the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel, killing 19 people, including all eight attackers. (Editing by Rob Taylor)
Source: Afghan security forces say major hotel attack foiled - AlertNet
KABUL (PAN): The Afghan spy service on Tuesday said that 241 would-be suicide bombers had been arrested in different parts of the country over the past two years.
The detainees included those who wanted to assassinate Vice-Presidents Mohammad Qasim Fahim and Mohammad Karim Khalili and other national figures.
A National Directorate of Security (NDS) spokesman said former jihadi leaders, cabinet ministers and parliamentarians were also on the hit-lists of the detainees.
Shafiqullah Tahiri accused regional countries of aiding and sending suicide bombers to Afghanistan. Six group suicide attacks, planned in Pakistan, were recently foiled by intelligence operatives, he claimed.
Three key associates of Maulvi Nooruddin, a Taliban-designated governor for northern Takhar province, were among the five insurgents detained with four suicide vests, he said.
A seven-member group had been detained in Kunduz on charges of disruptive activities, with remote-controlled bombs and suicide vests, the spokesman concluded.
Source: 241 would-be bombers held in 2 years | Pajhwok Afghan News
Regional intelligence networks backing insurgents, NDS
ا٠ÙÛت Ù ÙÛ: ساز٠ا٠ÙØ§Û Ø§Ø³ØªØ®Ø¨Ø§Ø±Ø§ØªÛØ Ø¹Ø§Ù Ù Ú¯Ø³ØªØ±Ø´ جÙÚ¯ در اÙغاÙستا٠ÙستÙد
Afghan security forces say major hotel attack foiled
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:51 GMT
Source: reuters // Reuters
By Mirwais Harooni
Kabul, July 24 (Reuters) - Afghan security forces have foiled a plan by insurgents to attack a major international hotel in Kabul, intelligence officials said on Tuesday, blocking what would have been the second such attack in the capital in as many months.
Describing the plan as "major and aggressive", a spokesman for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the attack could have caused carnage, although he refused to give details.
"Terrorists planned to launch an attack on a five-star hotel. We avoided the assassination of scores of our people and the destruction of an important installation," said Shafiqullah Tahiri, the deputy spokesman for the NDS.
Investigations into the attack were continuing, he said.
Taliban gunmen in June stormed a small resort hotel and restaurant at Qargha lake, on Kabul's outskirts, taking hostages and killing 20 people with rocket-propelled grenades, suicide vests and assault rifles.
Afghan police and NATO-led international forces ended the attack after a 12-hour siege, but it again showed the ability of insurgents to stage high-profile raids even as NATO nations prepare to withdraw most of their combat troops by the end of 2014 and leave Afghans to lead the fight.
In April, Taliban fired rockets into the Star Hotel near President Hamid Karzai's presidential palace during an attack on the city's central business area, while in June 2011 insurgents attacked the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel, killing 19 people, including all eight attackers. (Editing by Rob Taylor)
Source: Afghan security forces say major hotel attack foiled - AlertNet
arresting some pakistanis 
