[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Intelligence operatives have nabbedYez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
three members of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network in connection to two deadly bombings in Kabul city which left scores of people dead.
The National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) in a statement said three Haqqani Network members have been arrested in connection to the bombings near the German Embassy and G4S Camp in the city.
The statement further added that the three individuals identified as Eng. Sharif, and Ghulam Mustafa who are originally residents of Syedabad district of Maidan Wardak province, have confessed their role in planning and facilitating the two attacks based on their Masters’ orders
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The National Directorate of Security also added that the investigations once again prove the previous information of the agency that the attacks were planned by Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
leadership with coordination of the neighboring intelligence and were implemented by Haqqani Network cell located in Maidan Wardak province.
The assailants who carried out attack against G4S camp were trained by Mawlavi Haneef who is originaly a resident of Kandahar province and is in charge of training jacket wallahs in Quetta city,
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in connection with the truck bomb near Zanbaq Square in Kabul city in May 2017.
The suspects are from Maidan Wardak province and reportedly confessed to the bombing during an interrogation. According to the NDS, these three suspects organized the bombing. The NDS also said that the three suspects had been involved in a number of other attacks. However,
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the NDS did not provide details regarding their identity.
The deadly May 2017 truck bomb exploded at the entrance of the Green Zone close to Zanbaq Square in Kabul city at 8:20am on a Wednesday morning in May 2017.
At least 85 people were killed in the incident and about 400 were maimed.
The Taliban
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rejected any involvement in the blast.
This latest arrest comes after eight people were sentenced to extended jail terms last week after being found guilty of conspiring in the Intercontinental Hotel attack in Kabul in January last year, a source from the Attorney General’s Office confirmed. The AGO source said the eight people had been found guilty of aiding in the attack and transporting explosives. The eight were not however named. The source said that three of the guilty parties were sentenced to 20 years in prison and five to 22 years in prison.
A group of murderous Moslems stormed the Intercontinental Hotel in Bagh-e-Bala area in Kabul city on 28 January last year which resulted in the death of at least 29 people. At the time however, one source said the corpse count could have been as high as 43. Fourteen foreign nationals were among the dead.
Over 100 hotel guests and staff were rescued during the 17 hour siege, including 41 foreign nationals.
The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack and said five attackers had been involved in the siege.
Eyewitnesses at the time said there had been an engagement party at the hotel when the attack happened and that button men opened fire on guests. The state-owned hotel, built in the 1960s, is not part of the global InterContinental chain. However,
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guests believed it to be secure and well protected.
However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
witnesses at the time claimed the hotel's security guards fled the attackers and left guests to their fate. Hotel security had been taken over by a private company just three weeks before the attack.