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Kabul Koppers intercept boom truck...
Police in the Afghan capital Kabul have seized a truck loaded with explosives barely a week after a massive car bomb in the city killed 30 people.
I wanted to blog this yesterday, when it came on the news, but I had my server disassembled into little itty-bitty pieces by then. Happens every time...
The state-run Kabul TV network reports an unspecified amount of explosives was discovered on the water tanker during an inspection at a roadblock. The report said that police had released the driver of the truck without charge, but had arrested the "culprits". No further details were given.
Ummm... Let's step over here... (glance)... (glance)... Y'don't suppose... ummm... that the Secret Army of Doom isn't as secret as it thinks it is?

FOLLOWUP: The invaluable Steve sends me the Wash Times article on this episode. They say it was a fuel tanker, not a water truck. Slight difference there.
Security forces discovered explosives aboard a fuel truck in the capital yesterday, preventing a potential terrorist attack in the city, state TV said.

Police arrested several people aboard the truck after they stopped and searched it in eastern Kabul, the report said. The driver was released later yesterday, but others remained in custody.

"They wanted to bring it into Kabul for a terrorist action," state TV said of the tanker, giving no other details.
I prefer to believe, until proven otherwise, that it was a water truck. I prefer my Enemies of Civilization to be inept...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-09-16
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=6893