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| Pakistani authorities arrest 3, seize explosives |
| 2008-06-06 |
| Pakistani authorities arrested three suspected suicide bombers and seized more than a ton of explosives in a suspected terror plot near the capital, officials said Friday. Senior police officer Rao Mohammed Iqbal told The Associated Press that several suspects, including the three alleged bombers, were arrested in the operation late Thursday in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. He provided no details on what the bombers allegedly wanted to target and whether the vehicles had been rigged to detonate. However, two security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media, said the arrested men were suspected of wanting to target "sensitive installations." The arrests came just days after a suicide car bombing at the Danish Embassy in Islamabad killed six people. Authorities seized three vehicles with more than 2,200 pounds of explosives, Iqbal said. Iqbal, deputy inspector-general of Rawalpindi police, said an official statement on the arrests would be issued later Friday. Pakistan's Geo TV news network quoted Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik as saying a total of six people, including the three bombers, were captured. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #1 Well, maybe they were just going to go do a little fishing. Yeh, that's it. Just a little boom boom fishing. Did anyone check to see if they had their fishing licenses? |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-06-06 11:30 |