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| US Holds Seven in Afghanistan for Planning Attacks |
| 2003-03-08 |
| U.S. forces hunting Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda followers in Afghanistan said today they had detained seven men suspected of planning attacks on coalition forces. They were detained with bomb-making instructions in their possession by Special Forces on Friday near Spin Majid in the southwestern province of Helmand, U.S. military spokesman Colonel Roger King said. Bad time to pop your beturbanned little head up over the terrorism background noise, isn't it? He added no units of the U.S.-led coalition force were in action in Ribat, in Nimroz province on the Iran-Pakistan border, where according to a Pakistani official two sons of bin Laden may have been wounded and captured on Thursday. King said, "We don't have any forces operating in the area of Ribat at this time. We have had people pass through from time to time; as far as I know we have not had any forces (there) in the last 72 hours." The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are also hunting for bin Laden and other al Qaeda figures, but are not part of the coalition task force. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |