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Afghanistan Arrests 17 Would-Be Bombers
 Security agents have arrested 17 people allegedly trained in Pakistan who they believe planned to launch suicide attacks in three Afghan provinces, Afghanistan's intelligence agency said on Wednesday. The 17 were detained in Nangarhar, Kunduz and Kabul provinces and told authorities they attended militant training camps in neighboring Pakistan, said Said Ansari, spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence agency. It was unclear when they were detained.
| The would-be bombers trained in Shamshatoo, an Afghan refugee camp near Peshawar, and at another camp near Data Khel in North Waziristan... |
Ansari said that militants in Pakistan encourage fighters to carry out suicide attacks by telling them that girls in Afghanistan are wearing un-Islamic clothes or studying subjects in school unrelated to Islam. The would-be bombers trained in Shamshatoo, an Afghan refugee camp near Peshawar, and at another camp near Data Khel in Pakistan's semiautonomous North Waziristan tribal region, Ansari said. "They are telling those people that they should conduct suicide attacks because the foreigners who are here are doing bad things in Afghanistan that are unacceptable in an Islamic country," Ansari told a news conference.
| If there is any such evidence, this should be shared with us officially through the fastest channels so that we can verify it and take appropriate action," said Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan... |
Few details were provided on the 17 detainees. One was an Afghan, said Ansari, who did not reveal the nationalities of the others. Pakistan's top military spokesman said Pakistan had no information on the 17 arrests and urged Afghan officials to convey its information to Pakistani authorities. "If there is any such evidence, this should be shared with us officially through the fastest channels so that we can verify it and take appropriate action," Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan told The Associated Press. "Sharing of such information with the media is absolutely unwise and illogical."
Posted by: Fred 2006-10-05 |
