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Afghans Foil Plan to Disrupt Poll; 60 Taleban Held
| I think this expands the 25 bad boyz reported below... |
 Afghan authorities arrested 60 Taleban guerrillas who were planning to derail the upcoming presidential election, officials said yesterday, as campaigning intensified for the poll in a week's time. President Hamid Karzai's deputies and his main opponent hit the election trail. But Karzai, almost invisible during the campaign amid security concerns, prepared to go to Germany to receive an award. Sayed Fazluddin Agha, a senior official in the town of Spin Boldak on the border with Pakistan, said the guerrillas were intercepted on Friday as they slipped across the frontier.
| He means from Pakland, of course... |
 "Their aim was to target voting centers and government troops in Helmand and Uruzgan provinces," he said. "During the initial investigation, we found they were planning to attack the elections." Helmand and Uruzgan are both in the south of the country and are part of the stronghold of the Taleban, who were ousted from power by US-led forces in 2001 for failing to hand over Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden. The US military, leading 18,000 troops hunting Taleban and Al-Qaeda militants, also said it had thwarted planned attacks aimed at disrupting the country's first ever direct presidential vote, but warned of more violence to come. "As we get closer to the election we expect to see more activity," US military spokesman Maj. Scott Nelson told reporters. "It only takes one person with a car bomb to get in there and get lucky and do something."
Posted by: Fred 2004-10-02 |
