Italians 'confess' to murder plot in Afghanistan

[Robb]

Source: Times Online (UK)

Three Italian aid workers seized by Afghan police in Helmand have confessed to their part in a plot to assassinate the provincial governor, Afghan officials claimed yesterday.

The men were among nine people arrested on Saturday when Afghan security forces stormed a hospital in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province.

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Mr Ahmadi claimed that the detainees had links with the Taleban’s Quetta Shura, the exiled leadership council named after its new base in Baluchistan province, Pakistan. He said they had been paid $500,000 (£325,000) to carry out the attack.

“There are no weapons allowed in the hospital, so it’s the Governor’s habit to come in without his bodyguards,” Mr Ahmadi said. “The plan was to launch a second attack inside the hospital, to kill (Govenor Mangal).”

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7094630.ece

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The Quetta Shura ... is outsourcing.

[ShockediSay]

1. Of course, we can all rely on confessions

under the auspices of the Afghan authorities {?what torture}

[Robb]

2. There is that.

Although I'm sure they have a reasonable explanation for the hand grenades and explosive vests.

[harun]

3. They're in Afghanistan, maybe they were going fishing.

[Robb]

4. I know you're kind of joking

...but a friend in Pakistan has pictures of he and his father boar hunting of his 14th birthday. With Kalashnikovs. :D

[harun]

5. I actually saw a show years back, I think on PBS, where they did

actually go fishing with grenades. It was in Afghanistan. China fills the country with cheap weaponry. Grenades are cheaper than fishing poles. They went to the local fishing hole, got behind some rocks and threw in a grenade. After it went off they picked up the floating fish and had their fish to fry.

A different world.