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2020-08-28 Afghanistan
ASF Foil Plotted Terrorist Attack on Muharram Rituals
[KhaamaPress] Afghan Special Forces
...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting...
in an operation nabbed a group of nine people, including a woman, who plotted attacks on Muharram rituals in Police District 5 of the Kabul city Wednesday night, Ministry of Interior said in a statement.

The operation was carried at PD5 of Kabul city, where the security officials were able to arrest at least nine people, including a women, in Kot-e-Sangi, the statement read.

Security officials seized two suicide kaboom vests and six further bombs from the perpetrators, according to the statement.

Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face...
the Afghan forces arrested further five Lions of Islam in PD12 of the capital city, the statement added.

Ministry of Interior exclaimed its security team will not allow any terrorist to inflict harm or attack during the Ashura — the 10th of Muharram.

Muharram is the first month of Islamic calendar, and is known as mourning month that includes a set of commemoration rituals observed primarily by Shia and Sufi Moslems.

Most of the events associated with the ritual take place in congregation halls known as Hussianiya.
...also known as an imambargh, it’s a congregation hall for Twelver Shia Muslims...
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