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Afghanistan
Officials Find Links to Defence Ministry Attack
2011-06-03
[Tolo News] A senior aide of a top military official in Ministry of Defence was found to have a hand in an attack on the Ministry, a source with knowledge of the issue told TOLOnews on condition of anonymity.

Officials in Afghan Defence Ministry only confirmed that the attacker was taken inside the ministry by a vehicle belonging to a high-ranking official.

Suicide attacks targeting key military institutions, including defence ministry and the military hospital in Kabul caused widespread concerns about enemy infiltration in Afghan cops.

Some experts claim that a high-ranking official in defence ministry has a hand in the incident and the jacket wallah was taken inside the ministry compound by his senior aide.

"In defence ministry attack an army soldier named Habibullah, senior aide of the commander for deputy defence minister, cooperated with the attacker to get inside the ministry compound and to kill some of our personalities," Political Analyst Jawid Kohistani said.

But officials said a driver of a high-ranking official took the man inside and now the driver is on the run.

"As I said before defence ministry attacker is Atiqullah from south eastern Afghanistan and was living in London. He came to Afghanistan from London and then was taken to Northern Wazoo for training," Defence Ministry Spokesman Gen. Zaher Azimi said. "Then he was taken into the ministry by a driver of an official while the official was not aware of the process."

The other day National Directorate of Security announced that six accomplices of defence ministry attack, including his brother have been jugged.

"The jugged individuals were aware of the suicide kaboom plan in advance, but they have yet to confess on how the attacker was taken inside the ministry," National Directorate of Security front man, Lotfullah Mashal, said.

Officials said investigations into defence ministry incident are still in progress and around ten people have been set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock in connection with the incident.
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