KABUL: Afghan police on Saturday said they had seized a major cache of nearly 300 rockets hidden on the outskirts of Kabul, which could have been used to attack the capital. Speaking during a news conference in Kabul, city police chief Abdul Rahman Rahman showed nearly 300 122mm rockets, telling reporters that "spy agencies of neighbouring countries" had been seeking hired guns to fire them.| What say the cognoscenti: Pakistan or Iran? |
The discovery followed reports that Taliban insurgents were planning attacks on Kabul during a May 29 conference of more than 1,000 community and political representatives, Rehman said. "We had reports that Kabul might be under threat from the northeast and northwest sides of the city," he said.
The rockets were surplus from the Soviet deployment of Afghanistan in the 1980s, he said, adding that intelligence reports pointed to the involvement of foreign agencies in funding the movement of the weapons.
| At that age, how many would actually fly, rather than blow up on the stand (incidentally killing all involved -- d'you s'pose Allah would pay out the promised Rs 20 mil?) |