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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 04:02 PM
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Italians 'confess' to murder plot in Afghanistan
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



The Quetta Shura ... is outsourcing.
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ShockediSay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 07:28 PM
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1. Of course, we can all rely on confessions
under the auspices of the Afghan authorities {?what torture}
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:07 PM
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2. There is that.
Although I'm sure they have a reasonable explanation for the hand grenades and explosive vests.
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harun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 09:11 AM
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3. They're in Afghanistan, maybe they were going fishing.
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 09:55 AM
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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
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harun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 08:30 PM
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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.
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