WAR: Huge Afghan poll attack 'foiled', page 1
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Topic started on 8-10-2004 @ 10:49 AM by SE7EN
A tanker carrying 40,000 litres of fuel and packed with explosives was intercepted by Afghan security forces and US forces in southern Afghanistan, The tanker would have killed up to hundreds of people and was meant to disrupt Afghanistan elections due to take place on Saturday.




BBC NEWS

It is obvious that their main goal was to detonate the truck in Kandahar city," Mr Ghafur said.

Colonel Ishaq Paiman, deputy spokesman for the Afghan defence ministry, said: "This would have caused hundreds of deaths ... and the electoral process would have been derailed in the area."

Nato peacekeepers' spokesman, Lieutenant Commander Ken MacKillop, said three Pakistanis were arrested.

Commander MacKillop also said that two men, one Afghan, one Pakistani, were arrested in the eastern city of Jalalabad while waiting to travel to Kabul.

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There is still itimidation from localised factions ascribed to not wanting an election because they want "war lord power" - but the election will still take place Saturday no matter what happens.
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