'Arms smugglers' seized in Kabul (US & Brits)

[DoYouEverWonder]

15 October 2005

British and US citizens are among eight people arrested on suspicion of arms smuggling in the Afghan capital, Kabul, Afghan police have said.

Two senior police sources told the BBC they were detained in a raid on a guest house earlier this week.

Those arrested had forged documents saying they were personnel of the International Security Assistance Force of peacekeepers, the sources said.

They said Isaf had confirmed those arrested were not part of the force.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4345220.stm


Makes you wonder who the 'insurgents' really are?

[stillcool]

1. hmmm....

The police sources would not say what kind of arms were allegedly being smuggled or who they were destined for.

The US and British embassies have so far made no comment on the arrests.

[cantstandbush]

2. Why the hell hasn't FOX reported this?

Bet you won't hear about this on Sunday morning talk shows.

[LSDMTMA]

3. Wow

BBC of course.

[Roland99]

13. Welcome to DU, LSDMTMA!

:hi:

[newyawker99]

19. Hi LSDMTMA!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Roy]

4. How many tanks will it take to break these guys out of jail?

nt

[hootinholler]

17. Good memory!

:rofl:

Maybe it's ElCIAduh linked.

-Hoot

[ngGale]

5. This is getting to be a deep subject....hmmm....n/t

[stop the bleeding]

6. Wasn't there american guys caught in Iraq by Iraqis trying to

detonate car bomb. The US Military came and whisk the American dudes away.

Anyone know anything about this?

Could the events be related in some way?

I would like to see what people say about this.

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Yes, I heard that one

but then the story disappeared almost as fast as it appeared.

[converted_democrat]

10. Link-

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2155365

[callady]

11. For More

Go Here with other links:

Civilwarland in Bad Decline
From Iraqi Resistance Report (scroll down a bit):

"A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress as they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of a residential area in western Baghdad on Tuesday.

Residents of western Baghdad's al-Ghazaliyah district told Quds Press that the people had apprehended the Americans as they left their Caprice car near a residential neighborhood in al-Ghazaliyah on Tuesday afternoon (11 October 2005). Local people found they looked suspicious so they detained the men before they could get away. That was when they discovered that they were Americans and called the Iraqi puppet police.

Five minutes after the arrival of the Iraqi puppet police on the scene a large force of US troops showed up and surrounded the area. They put the two Americans in one of their Humvees and drove away at high speed to the astonishment of the residents of the area.

Quds Press spoke by telephone with a member of the al-Ghazaliyah puppet police who confirmed the incident, saying that the two men were non-Arab foreigners but declined to be more precise about their nationality.

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/10/civilwarland-in-bad-decline.html

[stop the bleeding]

12. Thanks for the link, its amazing that the media didn't even peep

about this, even though there was probably a reporter embeded in the humvee that showed up on the scene.

[jasmeel]

14. I thought it was British dudes??

[callady]

15. This is a different twosome

different incident. Same modus operandi.

Negroponte is an old hand at this sort of thing. As are others in Western intelligence services.

[0007]

16. That was the time before and the time before that was an

American involvement and the time after that was the Brits, and the time before that was another Brit involvement. If the Americans get caught the American army comes to the recuse. If it is a British dude that gets caught, the Brits come with tanks and heavy guns.

[hootinholler]

18. How many times has this happened?

Where the hell is the press on this.

-Hoot

[HuffleClaw]

7. strange tale

more agents provacateurs ? funny, USUALLY if a us citizen is detained for so much as jaywalking in a 'third world nation' they make a huge stink.

[converted_democrat]

9. Wow..... I hope we hear more about this...n/t