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| Pakistan Links Quetta 'Bomb-Making Factory' to Attacks |
| 2013-08-22 |
| [An Nahar] Pak authorities said Wednesday that a boom-mobile factory where troops confiscated more than 100 tones of chemicals had been used in recent attacks on troops and minority Shiite Musselmens. Paramilitary troops found wires, detonators and mixers to turn the chemicals into bombs during Tuesday's raid in the city of Quetta, a flashpoint for sectarian, Islamist and separatist attacks. Eleven people have now been tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in connection with the case and the owner of the compound has been tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! for questioning, said a front man for the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC). Suspects told Sherlocks that potassium chlorate and ammonium chlorate had been packed with wires and detonators into vehicles at the compound, a paramilitary official said. Experts believe the compound was effectively a bomb-making factory, which had prepared explosives used in recent kabooms on military targets and Shiites. "We have recovered a machine which is basically a mixer, used to mix chemicals to make bombs. We have recovered sulphur and hundreds meter of wire," said the FC front man. "We have also recovered 79 remote controls and short circuit wires. Some 20,000 kilograms of explosive were ready at the factory and just needed to be fitted into vehicles," he added. |
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