fwd: Afghan judge arrested for Kabul bombing

Very interesting. One never knows what is actually happening out there. Things
are never what they seem. Best, RLC

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From: Musa Paktiawal
To: afghaniyat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Afghan judge arrested for Kabul bombing
Date: Jan 8, 2005
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> 08 Jan 2005 07:24:16 GMT
> Afghan judge arrested for Kabul bombing
> By Sayed Salahuddin
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> KABUL, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Afghan security forces have detained a
> supreme court judge suspected of being involved in an August car bomb
> attack that killed 10 people, including three Americans, in the
> capital Kabul, a court official said on Saturday.
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> The attack targeted offices used by the private U.S. security firm
> DynCorp, which provides protection to President Hamid Karzai and
> gives anti-narcotics training to Afghan police.
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> A supreme court official said the arrest of Judge Naqibullah followed
> the interrogation of two al Qaeda members detained this month for the
> bombing.
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> "The security forces several days ago arrested Naqibullah as an
> accused over the bombing incident," Wahid Mozhda, a spokesman for the
> supreme court, told Reuters.
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> "They said the other two suspects had also said that they had spent a
> night at Naqibullah's house in Kabul."
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> Naqibullah also served as the head of the preliminary court of a
> district of Panj Sher province to the northeast of the capital, the
> official said.
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> He belonged to a faction of the Mujahideen, or holy warriors, which
> fought the 1980s Soviet occupation and then the Taliban from the late
> 1990s, helping U.S.-led forces topple them in 2001.
>
> Security forces said they discovered explosives during a raid on
> Naqibullah's house, Mozhda said.
>
> The Taliban, ousted from power in 2001 for harbouring al Qaeda and
> its chief, Osama bin Laden, claimed responsibility for the bombing
> and the suicide attack.
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> Bin Laden is the architect of Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. cities and his
> whereabouts remain a mystery, though officials speculate that he is
> hiding somewhere along the rugged border between Afghanistan and
> Pakistan.
>
> Taliban remnants and their al Qaeda allies are mostly active in parts
> of southern and eastern Afghanistan.
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