A terrorist act is prevented in the building of the Afghan Ministry of Defense
According to the New York Times, the suspects were detained after ten “death belts” were discovered on the premises of the agency.
According to the newspaper, a conspiracy to commit a terrorist act in the building of the Ministry of Defense and in several buses for government employees was prevented on Monday. This is reported by ITAR-TASS.
The Afghan defense ministry declined to comment on the prevention of the terrorist act, but information on the prevention was confirmed by several Afghan officials and representatives of Western troops.
According to the New York Times, “suicide belts” with special pockets for explosives were found in the premises for the building’s security officers, who are located near the parking lot.
As one of the Afghan officers stated to the American edition, it is not safe to be in the building of the Ministry of Defense now. The terrorists, he said, had connections in the ministry, otherwise they would not have fallen on a carefully guarded military facility.
According to the New York Times, on Tuesday access to the Afghan Defense Ministry was almost completely blocked, and at the same time security measures in the diplomatic district of Kabul were significantly enhanced.
The BBC service provides information on eighteen arrested and eleven "death belts."
Recall that after the shooting by the American sergeant of seventeen peaceful Afghans (on the night of March 11) in Afghanistan, attacks by local security forces officers at NATO troops increased.
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