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Unsuccessful assassination attempt on Dostum. Ow.
RFE/RL Bashir Baygzad, the security chief of the northern Afghan city of Sheberghan, told Radio Free Afghanistan on 15 January that a man who was arrested on 14 January as he was allegedly preparing to assassinate General Abdul Rashid Dostum was working for the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Nope. Surprise meter didn't budge... Baygzad identified the alleged would-be assassin as a 27-year-old man from the Chahardarah district of Kunduz Province who recently moved to Kabul. Baygzad added that the arrested suspect said during his interrogation that 12 to 24 people have recently entered northern parts of Afghanistan to carry out "terrorist" activities. The report did not specify the identities of those people. Anybody want to bet they didn't enter from Pakistan? I need some easy money... Baygzad also said the suspect was attempting to gain entrance to the palace where Dostum lives via a water channel, but was prevented from doing so by a fence and was caught. According to the report, the man intended to blow himself up close to Dostum. One of the boomer boyz they've been training next door, in the low-rent district of Central Asia. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-01-17 |
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