[KhaamaPress] The Afghan National Police (ANP), in coalition with National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) arrested one suspect of planting mine across Pul-e-Alam city of Pashtun-infested Logar province, said the Ministry of Defense in a statement Tuesday.
According to the statement, officials seized at least two bombs from the detainee.
"ANP & NDS operatives arrested a mine planter in Pul-e-Alam City of Pashtun-infested Logar province,’’ said the MoIA in a tweet. "Two roadside kabooms were also seized from the detainee."
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened... in a separate operation in Daikundi and Kunduz, the "ANP bomb disposal unit discovered & defused two roadside kabooms planted by terrorists" in the provinces.
Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... did not immediately comment on the incident.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan National Army (ANA) arrested at least three suspected Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in a battle with the group in western province of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , said the Ministry of Defense in a statement Tuesday.
According to the statement, the Taliban planned to carry attack against security forces in the city when they faced heavy retaliation by the national army.
"3 #Taliban were arrested by ANA in Herat provincial center today morning," said the MoD in a tweet. "They were planning to target security personnel when they were maimed and arrested by #ANA.
Taliban did not immediately comment on the incident.
Five People Killed in Kabul Blast
[ToloNews] At least five people were killed and two others were wounded in a mine blast in Kabul city on Tuesday morning, Kabul police confirmed in a statement.
The incident occurred around 7:33am local time in the Doghabad area of PD7 of Kabul city when a mine exploded that had been placed on a vehicle carrying doctors working at Pul-e-Charkhi prison, the statement said.
However, the statement did not provide further details about the victims.
Before this, officials at Istiqlal hospital confirmed that at least three people were killed and two were wounded in the blast and the dead and wounded have been transferred to the hospital.
The Taliban in a statement denied their involvement in the attack.
Dr. Nazifa Ibrahimi, the acting head of the health directorate of the prisoners' affairs authority, was among the five killed in the attack, the authority said in a statement.
Other officials who were killed in the attack are Abdul Matin, the deputy head of the health directorate of the prisoners’ affairs authority, Abdul Nabi, driver of the department, Dr. Sona, an employee of the Ministry of Public Health who was sent to the authority for COVID-19 tests for prisoners.
ANA ‘Safely’ Detonates Bomb, Avoiding Infrastructure Damages in Kabul
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan National Army (ANA) “safely detonated” a bomb planted under a bridge in Police District 19 (PD19) of Kabul city, said the Ministry of Defense in a statement, avoiding a possible infrastructure damages at the location.
According to the statement, the bomb was discovered by the national army members on Monday, which could have taken lives if otherwise the bomb would went off.
“A bomb which was placed by #Taliban under a bridge in PD 19 of Kabul was discovered and safely detonated by #ANA,” said the MoD in a tweet. “Additionally, lives of tens of civilians were saved as a result.”
Officials did not provide further details, but accused Taliban for having hands behind such an attacks.
Taliban did not immediately comment on the incident.
Doghabad Magnetic Bomb Blast Claims 1
[KhaamaPress] At least one civilian confirmed dead after a magnetic bomb went off in Police District 7 (PD7) of the Afghan capital Kabul early Tuesday morning, local security officials said.
According to the authorities, the incident took place at around 7:33 a.m. in Doghabad area of PD7 at a time a public vehicle was targeted with a magnetic mine, killing one passenger on board.
Officials did not provide further details on possible injuries and total number of civilian on board the Corolla vehicle, but said an investigation is underway.
No group of individual has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
[ToloNews] Ahmad Omar Saleh, Kunduz’s Chardara district police chief, was killed in festivities with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... on Monday night, security sources said.
Taliban attacked security forces in Chardara and three other security force members were killed in the fighting, the sources said.
Saleh was police chief of the district for the past several years.
Local security officials have not yet commented on the attack.
[ToloNews] At least seven civilians and two army soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in the northern province of Faryab and the eastern province of Khost ...which coincidentally borders North Wazoo and Kurram Agency... on Tuesday, local officials confirmed.
Three non-combatants were killed and 10 more people, including five civilians, were maimed in a boom-mobile explosion in Dawlat Abad district in Faryab province, the provincial police front man Abdul Karim Yurish said.
The explosion happened on Monday night, Yurish said, adding that it was carried out by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... The explosion has caused "heavy financial losses" to residents by damaging their houses, the front man said.
The Taliban has not commented on the incident.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco... six people, including four civilians, were killed and six more were maimed in a kaboom that targeted a military vehicle in Yaqubi district, Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... , this afternoon, police said.
Tuesday was more deadly for Afghan civilians compared to recent days, as incidents occurred in at least four provinces: Kabul, Kunduz, Khost and Faryab.
Also, four people were killed and three more were maimed in a clash over the ownership of a shop in the central province of Parwan on Tuesday afternoon, said Mohammad Sadiq Hashimi, a provincial police officer.
A senior #Sudanese army officer was the first to be questioned by a committee investigating a deadly crackdown last year on pro-democracy #protesters, a source linked to the probe says.https://t.co/b9bYFXWjTQ
The suspect is a former Libyan intelligence officer, Mohammed Abouagela Masud and was allegedly in charge of making the bomb...#Libya#LibyaReviewhttps://t.co/QGnqFzjA7R
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"downed". With what? 88mm FLAK? Stinger? Grail? Lucky AK shot? Nice to know, since the various possible means cost more, or less, on the arms market. Funding?
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The Houthis have SA-15 (Tor) SAM systems and jury rigged R-27 Infrared Air-Air missiles. Either can shoot down Chinese CH-4s. Since this shoot down is caught on IR surveillance video, I suspect an R-27 using the surveillance system to track the target.
[Jpost] The IDF on Tuesday said it is increasing security measures in the West Bank.
The IDF "will reinforce troops in Judea and Samaria today [Tuesday] to enhance the defense of communities and roads in the region," the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.
All soldiers in the Judea and Samaria Division will be under curfew until Friday, it said.
On Monday, Esther Horgen was murdered near Tal Menashe, a settlement in northern Samaria.
Also on Monday, a terrorist attack took place in Jerusalem’s Old City near Lions’ Gate. The suspect, a 17-year-old Paleostinian from Kabatiya, near Jenin, was armed with a submachine gun and shot at police before being neutralized by Border Police officers, the police said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) forces near Ramallah accidentally fired on a vehicle as it sped toward them after a crash. There were no casualties.
The Shin Bet officers thought they were being targeted by a ramming attack and fired at the vehicle. The driver was transferred to Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer after he was injured lightly in the traffic accident. He was not injured by the gunfire.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz signed an order on Tuesday to seize $4 million that Iran transferred to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The move was recommended by the Defense Ministry’s National Bureau for Counter-Terrorism Financing (NBCTF).
Gantz’s order targets Gazan businessman Zuhir Shamalch and his Al-Mutahadun (the unionized) money-changing company.
In response to a similar order that was signed in February, and in an effort to disguise its relationship with Hamas, the company changed its name to Al-Markaziya Lil-Sirafa (the commerce center). The updated order includes Shamalch, the original name of the company and its new name.
The administrative order, which Gantz signed in accordance with the powers allocated to him under the Counter-Terrorism Law of 2016, allows for the seizure of funds or property equal in value to money-service businesses wherever they may be found, the Defense Ministry said.
Shamalch replaced Hamad al-Khodari, Hamas’s main money changer, after the IDF killed him in May 2019. Khodari was close with Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s leader in the Gaza Strip.
The order will impose worldwide restrictions on Shamalch and his family by restricting their movement in some countries and restricting the financial activities of the company with international financial institutions.
The Military Intelligence Directorate and the NBCTF assembled the file that led to publication of the order.
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