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| Explosives found in Afgan food sacks |
| 2003-01-13 |
| US soldiers have discovered hundreds of kilograms of explosives, as well as rockets and other bomb-making materials hidden in food sacks in the main city of eastern Afghanistan, a US spokesperson said on Monday. The explosives were found on Friday in Jalalabad, said Colonel Roger King, a spokesperson at the US military headquarters in Bagram, Afghanistan. The Special Forces troops also found 200 rocket-propelled grenades and 82kg of ball bearings hidden in the sacks. It was not clear if any arrests were made. "The explosives and ball bearings could indicate someone was planning to prepare an improvised explosive device," King said. It was not clear how powerful a bomb made with the material would have been. That would of made a lot of anti-personnel bombs. Nice catch Jalalabad is about 100km east of the capital, Kabul, near the border with Pakistan. No doubt the source of the explosives and ball bearings Meanwhile, attackers fired a single rocket at a US base in the eastern town of Khost, King said. Nobody was injured in the Saturday night attack. The rocket landed several hundred metres from the base perimeter. US bases in Afghanistan are attacked several times a week, usually with crude rockets set off by remote control or timers. The rockets rarely hit their targets and damage is minimal. One of these days they are going to get lucky. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 Mama Mia! Atsa spicy meatball! Booom! |
| Posted by: Denny 2003-01-13 20:25:34 |
| #2 Surely you're not implying that those Gulf States NGOs might be in the habit of occasionally providing explosives as part of their assistance packages? Tusk tusk. How could you think such a thing? |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-01-13 20:22:42 |
| #1 Ya know, given the, ah, "assistance" the UN refugee commission, the Red Cross, etc., have rendered to the Paleos, by transporting weapons and splodydopes in ambulances, smuggling, and so on, I just have to wonder how it is that hundreds of kilos of explosives ended up in food sacks. Anybody know the markings on the outsides of these sacks? Yeah, sure, they could have consumed/distributed the food first and then loaded them with the explosives, but that's too much like real work for our jihadis. I wonder if it all came pre-packaged, care of some worthy charity organization? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-01-13 17:50:14 |