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Afghanistan
NDS arrest Taliban weapons supplier, seize 7 vehicles laden with explosives
2016-03-09
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan intelligence operatives seized huge loads of weapons, ammunition and explosives by arresting a weapons supplier of the Taliban group in central Pashtun-infested Logar province of Afghanistan.

The National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
 (NDS) said the suspected supplier of weapons to the Taliban group was tossed in the slammer
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
 during a special military operation in Khoshi district.

A statement by NDS said the weapons, ammunition and explosives were loaded on 7 vehicles which were confiscated by the intelligence operatives from Dobandi village.

The statement further added that 1 Ak-47 rifle, 16 improvised bomb, 350 kg of ammonium nitrate explosives, 48 kg of potassium nitrate explosives, 29 mortar rounds, 680 kg of drugs, 29 BM1 warheads, and various other types of explosives were seized by the intelligence operatives.

The Talibs group has not commented regarding the confiscation of the weapons and arrest of the group’s supplier.

This comes as the Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant during the recent months with the wave of violence being unprecedented even during the winter times when the turbans groups were normally reducing insurgency activities.

Posted by:Fred

#2  I'm second guessing of course, but the war would be a lot shorter if if a bust like this involved a hyperdose of Valium or something similar, followed by questions re
  1. where'd the explosives come from?
  2. names and locations of suppliers
  3. where'd the money come from? That crap's not free, y'know
  4. where was the money before that? It didn't sprout at the hawala place
  5. how'd it get there? It doesn't transport itself, and unless it's palletized (5x5 cubes) you can pretty well guess what it is
  6. who put the operation together? Mahmoud, out in Booniestan, didn't get up one morning and decide to ship IEDs, ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate, mortar rounds, drugs, and BM1 warheads to... somebody. Somebody else, siting somewhere else, thought it would be a nifty idea and did the coordinating
  7. what was the destination of these tasty viands?
  8. the name of the person or persons awaiting them
There are a lot more questions on the list, but you get the general idea. The idea that you have to take an electric drill to a person's kneecaps is a sign you're dealing with someone with sexual hangups or no access to drugs. If it's the latter, the answers will come two days later, when the other kneecap is about to be drilled.

The second half of the equation is that once you have the answers you have to follow up on them. Even through the haze of open source and incompetent reporting we've noticed that this ort of thing runs in families (do a quick browse on the bali bombers, back in October 2002 if you don't believe it.) Next to family comes friends. All those friends who're so surprised the guy could be involved in such antisocial activity were frantically burying the guns ad explosives down at the mosque yesterday.

Maybe there's a guy at KhAD headquarters with a box of 3x5s who knows everything about the structure of the insurgency, but he hasn't been telling the guys with the trenchcoats and sunglasses.
Posted by: Fred   2016-03-09 12:36  

#1  The statement further added that 1 Ak-47 rifle, 16 improvised bomb, 350 kg of ammonium nitrate explosives, 48 kg of potassium nitrate explosives, 29 mortar rounds, 680 kg of drugs, 29 BM1 warheads, and various other types of explosives were seized by the intelligence operatives

"We are simple rustic Elk Hunters. Those are our supplies"
Posted by: Frank G   2016-03-09 08:46  

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