Afghanistan Foils Huge Bomb Plot

Authorities found 10 tons of explosives in banana shipment
By Mark Russell,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 18, 2012 6:21 AM CDT
Afghanistan Foils Huge Bomb Plot
Afghanistan's intelligence agency says it has caught six men intending to launch a bombing campaign on the Afghan New Year.   (Getty Images)

Six Afghan men have been arrested while trying to smuggle nearly 10 tons of explosives and five suicide bomb vests into Afghanistan, hidden in a banana shipment from Pakistan, reports al-Jazeera. Afghanistan's intelligence agency says the men were planning on setting off a series of explosions for the country's New Year celebrations on Tuesday. Authorities say the men are ethnic Uzbeks and are connected to al-Qaeda and an Islamist group in Uzbekistan. (More Afghanistan stories.)

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