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Truck Laden With Explosives Impounded In Afghanistan
March 28, 2009
KHOST -- Security officials in Afghanistan's Khost Province have impounded a truck loaded with more than three tons of explosives, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan (RFA) reports.
The chief of the Khost City Security Department, Abdulqayum Baqizoy, told RFA that the truck crossed the Afghan-Pakistani border during the night of March 26.
He said terrorists planned to use the truck for an attack against a local government building on March 27.
He said the truck driver and his accomplices escaped, however.
Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/Truck_Laden_With_Explosives_Impounded_In_Afghanistan/1563561.html
Copyright (c) 2009. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036.
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