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                     Truck Bomb Plot Foiled in Afghanistan

   Afghanistan`s intelligence agency says it has defused a massive truck
   bomb that could have destroyed a whole area of the capital.
   The National Directorate of Security said Friday the eight tons of
   explosives were found early in the week in eastern Kabul in a night
   raid. A resulting firefight killed five suspected plotters. Two other
   people were arrested.
   The NDS said the bomb scheme was planned by the Pakistan-based Haqqani
   network.
   Shafiqullah Tahiri, a spokesman for the spy agency, said the detonation
   of the explosives would have been a "catastrophe" for people living in
   the city, destroying everything within 1,500 meters of the blast.
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