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Afghanistan
Suicide attack on an NGO foiled in Kabul city
2017-04-07
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan cops have foiled a suicide kaboom plot on a Non-governmental Organization in capital Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS), said the attack was plotted by the notorious Haqqani terrorist network to target an NGO in Kabul city.

According to a statement by NDS, the Afghan intelligence operatives managed to discover the explosives and materials prepared for the attack from the house of Qasim son of Abdul Malik who is a member of the network.

The statement further added that the cache was hidden in Dehsabz district of Kabul and included a suicide kaboom vest, 21 kg of explosives, 15 hand grenades, and some other technical equipments needed for the attack.

The intelligence operatives also confiscated two fake vehicle registration number plates from the house of the suspect.

Haqqani network was formed in the late 1970s by Jalaluddin Haqqani
...founder and still titular head of the Haqqani Network. Jalaluddin is old and tough and very crafty, one of the few Pashtun warlords who was worth spit...
. The group is allied with al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban and cooperates with other terrorist organizations in the region.

The US Department of State designated the HQN as a Foreign Terrorist Organization on September 7, 2012.

This come as local officials in Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
said at least twenty nine Lions of Islam of the Taliban group including two big shots of the group were killed in a US dronezap in the same district last month.

Posted by:Fred

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