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| Afghanistan |
| It was a tanker full of jet fuel... |
| 2002-09-17 |
| A tanker carrying explosives that was intercepted by Afghan police over the weekend was full of jet fuel and on its way to the U.S. military base north of Kabul, the head of foreign peacekeepers in Afghanistan said today. Damn. It wasn't a water truck. I'd been hoping. On the other hand, they caught them, didn't they? That's a real good sign... Turkish Maj. Gen. Hilmi Akin Zorlu, who leads the 4,700-strong International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul, said that his troops had intelligence about a possible security threat to Bagram Air Base and tipped off Afghan police. I wonder where that intel came from? I don't know if ISAF has its own intel resources. I'd suspect it came either from the U.S. — or from the Afghan agents riddling the Secret Army of Doom. Several arrests were made during the initial investigation, although the driver of the truck was freed after it was decided he had no knowledge of the explosives hidden in his vehicle. He was a sap. The other guys, however, are probably staked out wondering if Fahim's really going to drive a tank over them... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |