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Updated at 8:15 a.m. ET: Afghan security forces on Saturday arrested five insurgents suspected of planning massive attacks on crowded areas of the capital Kabul, an intelligence spokesman said.
S. Sabawoon / EPA
Afghan security official stands guard at the checkpoint on a roadside in Kabul on Saturday.
National Directorate of Security (NDS) spokesman Shafiqullah Tahiri said the five men were seized on Kabul's outskirts with 10,000 kilograms of explosives (11 tons) stuffed in 400 bags and hidden beneath a cargo of potatoes in the back of a Pakistan-registered truck.
The group also planned to assassinate the country's second vice-president Abdul Karim Khalili, the BBC reported.
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary reported on Twitter that a video detailing the insurgents' plan had been found.
"It could have caused large-scale bloodshed," Tahiri told a news conference in Kabul.
"Three Pakistani terrorists and two of their Afghan collaborators who placed the explosives under bags of potatoes in a truck were caught."
Tahiri said the five men confessed to receiving training from Noor Afzal and Mohammad Omar, whom he identified as key commanders of the Pakistani Taliban and Pakistan intelligence.
Video footage released by NDS to media showed the detained men, including the alleged Pakistanis, talking about where they came from while sitting against a blank white wall.
Rahmat Gul / AP
More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.
A Pakistani intelligence official declined comment on the accusations, while Afghan officials were not immediately available to give additional information.
Coordinated assault
The alleged connection to militants in Pakistan will likely step up the pressure on Islamabad, after a recent assault by insurgents on diplomatic and government areas in Kabul and elsewhere put the spotlight on the South Asian nation.
Afghan officials have long accused Pakistan of using insurgent groups like the Afghan Taliban as proxies in Afghanistan.
Pakistan's government denies supporting or giving sanctuary to insurgents on its territory.
Insurgents this week launched a coordinated assault on four provinces, targeting diplomatic and government areas of Kabul with rockets and gunfire in what they said was retaliation for abuses of Afghans by U.S. soldiers.
Kabul fighting ends after 18 hours of intense gunfire
The attacks showed the insurgency's resilience nearly 11 years since the Afghan Taliban were toppled.
The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks and said it planned similar assaults in coming months.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Aw, c'mon. These guys were just going fishing. That's all.
Terrorist no matter where they are, are such inbreeds and little men with a complex. The ignorance galore is just plain moronic. There is no excuse in todays world. Humans, People of ALL countries and around the world. TURN THESE PEOPLE INTO AUTHORITIES. Stop the violence against your fellow humans. It is the only way to peace in the world. The only way. Stand up and fight against the insanity.
Pakistan really? The ppl who we send $ to to help fight terrorism? If I send a check to some dude in Pakistan to help him blow up American interests, I think they call it treason....
11 tons is a lot of bang! Good for the Afgans. Pakistan doesn't care who buys their chemicals, apparently. We are told how poor the people there are...For poor people, 11 tons must have cost a lot...where did they get the money?
Poppy fields
They get the money from our US foreign aid dollars, have plenty to buy some explosives!
Not much said by the righties when Reagon and Ollie North was giving money and arms to the Taiban. Illegally selling missiles to Iran, a country we had a ban on. Nothing is said about Bush Jr. and Cheney telling the Taiban, that they can stay in power of Afghastan as long as they turn over Bin-Laden.Nothing is said of which president started the useless wars in Iraq and Afghastan.
Nothing is said by the righties of which president we ended up getting Bin-Laden. Which happened to be President Obama in case of a memory lost.
Nothing is said about IKE's "Atomic for Peace Program". helping Iran and Pakistan get Nuclear Reactors that could be made into war-heads.
As the world turns of the mess in the middle east, and who caused it in the first place.
Your are mistaken. I remember the Ollie North trials...and he was the fall guy. No American president should be sending a dime to Pakistan. If I was doing it as an American citizen, it would be illegal.
Can't change the past but can change the future: in the present, Obama's keeping it going so VOTE HIM OUT NOW!
The credit deserved by President Obama is for not chickening out and calling off the raid that got ObL -- no more and no less. Somehow Ron Paul is the only person approaching a major Presidential candidate who has called for a total immediate pullout from Afghanistan and he constantly ran fourth in a four-man field. However, every poll shows a vast majority of Americans wanting out, either now or very, very soon. I guess that since there isn't any draft and we have all-volunteer forces, it's mostly only a major issue if you have family there or likely to be sent there.
Um....interesting but you forgot that Saudia Arabia offered Clinton, OBL twice so why did he not take him? As for getting OBL give him credit for saying take him out...but Navy Seals Team 6 did the work....
Did you see the pictures of the wounded US boys? THAT'S what Karzai should be moaning about and apologizing for: American victims of suicide attacks in his crappy country, not our boys (and mostly his boys) fooling around with the body parts of murder bombers. That's been going on since the ancients put heads on sticks. It's a part of war, which is, if no one has noticed, not a pleasant game.
fu.ck you
Ha stoopid Amerikans. U no make tings anywun want er efford ands always fite fite fite and be big boss but U people have little no work. Gubberment give too much monies away to everybody-all peepoles. So stoopid- well catch up soon and all laugh at failure and then maybe you try again, ha no !! owe too to much and cannnot repay u very sorry but we sell u egg roll r sumting Amerikans
When the Afghanis were fighting the Soviets, all the wounded Freedom Fighters crossed into Pakistan to get patched up and shipped back into the fray. There were and probably still are, whole towns where you can shop for weapons...from AKs to hand held missle launchers. American volunteer doctors were doing the surgeries and because it was the Soviets it was an honorable endeavor. So what about now that we have become the whipping post in our efforts to bring some form of integrity to the area? Leopards don't change their spots...bring our people home and leave the cavemen to their cave life.
crud has it right folks. its the opium...plain and simple...and also the U.S war machine. just my opinion. It would be nice to just turn the entire mideast into 1 big mirror...and i believe eventually this will happen...at around the same time as NYC and DC and other major U.S. cities suufer the same fate. these guys are e x t r e m e i s t s!!! there are no limits to how they will go about destroying western ideas in the name of allah. fighting the "taliban" is a cover to protecting the poppy fields. like many have said before...these guys cannot be defeated. we can inflict damage in the area forever...but never will the U.S. or any other power defeat the powers in the mideast. bush knew it...obama knows it...the pentagon knows it...thats not what this war is about. its just big bucks...period! and it makes me sick everytime i read about the loss of american lives when i feel the same results can be had using drones, cruise missles, and other air power. now go ahead and rip me to shreads but as i stated before...this is just 1 mans opinion. and 1 more thought...take a good look at the pic of that poor bastard. does he really look as if he has anything to lose? and dont tell me "yeah...his life"
See u tink now- small mind want an hate but own gubberment proppa ganda bring house cards down many fail u see. new precedent will have fortune and stake in all
Just a few days ago I read where Pakistan wants more billlions, we are so damn stupid we will give it to them. They will keep taking our money and turning on us as long as we are willing to pay. I say bring home our troops and replace them with a couple of nukes that should solve the problem once and for all. Then we can tell the rest of those scumbags that harbor terrorists that we have a bunch more of them that are available upon request. Just mess with us and we will send you one too. If we can't learn to deal back to them in spades what they hand to us then we damn well better learn Farsi so we can talk to our new masters in their native tongue.
Re: Customgpc-----I am an artist of paint and knives,,however I have attempted to put my say in words on this forum many times,,,I sell my art but I couldn't give away any of my thoughts in words,,,You Sir made a statement that is so close my own thoughts,,if I had the ability to put my heart to words I still could not have expressed them as you have...Great comment, and as I dig in my bag of words I can only say" Ditto" for me too....ZZAR
and rachel...yes we need to get rid of obama...but not because of whats happening in the mideast...but for whats happening here at home. the powers that be will always use the office to stir up something somewhere on the planet. and no im not a rush fan. just a guy who spent many years working and living in western europe under a socialist government. trust me...not a great idea. and not how i want to live here in america.
many many news man paid to fuel your stoopid wall is a fun time we see, I have no hate. Hitler has propaganda that still hurts today, and will for many yearss to come, even tho he has been very dead for so long. where is our good sense and country going??? A sad affair to the fellow Americans- hogs at the trough>
OK, so lock them in the truck, tow it out into the open and blow the sucker up with them in it. It's what they want. Give it to them!
11 tons of explosives. What is an average car, 2 tons?. That is a lot of boom-boom.
The US Gov is obiously on crack- war crack, control crack, rob you and hunt you down crack, No I'm not doing dumbs @!$%# crack. Want to be world police crack------ soso foolish. No wonder "in god we trust" is removed--------------------------God Himself Would Only Shake His Head, and at the last time we talked, the answer was yes!
Let's all do as I am doing. We just send our entire pay or bankinfo to supporters of the americanwaragainstmiddleeasternwar.dumb
It will never end and our government has found the perfect way to dish out our very last pennies to the machine of war
Has anyone asked the Colombian hookers what they think about this?
Every time I read stories like this I realize [even more] that there are an awful lot of mean,
dissatisfied, very violent and pissed off people all over the world, and the numbers appear
to be growing alarmingly fast.
I'm glad that I have weapons and lots of supplies for when "things" really go "off the cliff".
You can not stand back on defense, you make them regret any attack. Go out there and make them pay every time they launch a strike like this.
Standing around defending the city will bring you more pain.
You can not stand back on defense, you make them regret any attack. Go out there and make them pay every time they launch a strike like this.
Standing around defending the city will bring you more pain.
It might be time to tell India......Have at em boys.
Should have told them the year after I was born, 1948, before the partitioning of India. The Muslims came to India to kill and conquer and got handed their asses by the Indians. The UN stepped in to partition and create Pakistan to save the Muslims from certain destruction. These stories come from my friend Gama who lived in the area almost his entire life, but they would differ from "liberal history" I am sure. Let India loose on these jerks and don't intervene for about 10 years, see what's left.