IRNA
04/20/2003
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Kabul - Kabul's National Security (KNC) sources said here Saturday that several terrorist plots have been unveiled and thwarted during the past three days.

The sources told IRNA that the chief officers of the KNC managed to detonate two BM1 missiles that were ready to be fired, aimed at the very populous "Timanee" district of the capital, on Friday night.

According to the sources, the terrorists had quite professionally attached a very sensitive wick of the bombs to an amount of C4 (automatically inflammable military substance).

It would have resulted in a small explosion initially after the setting aflame of the C4 material, and a massacring a large number of innocent civilians when the BM1s would have reached their targeted very populous spot.

The top KNC officials believe the terrorists wished to attract more people to the place of the first explosion to inflict heavier human casualties when the main bombs would explode.

Kabul TV, too, announced on Saturday night, quoting the Afghan capital's police commanders, "The Kabul police forces managed to discover and detonate a land mine planted in third street of Kabul's akrourian district on Saturday morning."

The KNC officials accused the remnants of Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces, as well as the supporters of the rioter head of Afghanistan's outlawed Islamic Movement Party Golboddin Hekmatyar responsible for such terrorist moves, although usually no one claims responsibility for them here.

The KNC officers also announced early Saturday night that two missiles, ready to be fired, were discovered and detonated at a residential area near Kabul's famous Pol-Charkhi district.

According to the officers at 12th Police Station of Kabul, the terrorists had hidden those missiles in a destroyed house, aiming them at Kabul's central areas.

A suspected bomb exploded Thursday night in the Afghan capital -- the second this week -- and a bomb disposal squad was attempting to defuse a second, police said.

Also a blast last Sunday night left a two-meter hole at the side of the main Kabul-Jalalabad road. An ISAF spokesman had said that blast was caused by a device containing around five kilograms of explosives, but it was not known whether it was a land mine or an improvised explosive device.

On March 30 the ISAF headquarters was hit in a rocket attack which destroyed two cars but did not cause any injuries.

The 4,600-strong ISAF force comprises troops from 29 nations and is currently led by Germany and the Netherlands.

ISAF is responsible for security in Kabul, while an 11,500 strong US-led coalition force continues its search across Afghanistan for the remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, who aim at overthrowing president Hamid Karzai's central interim government.

NATO is set to take over command of the ISAF peacekeepers as of August 10 when the term of the current German-Dutch command expires. Security remains a major concern for the government of President Hamid Karzai as Afghanistan struggles to overcome decades of conflict and warlordism.

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