Arrests of suspects of suicide bombings in Afghanistan show that the attacks have been orchestrated from Pakistan.
KANDAHAR: Arrests and interrogations of suspects in a recent series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan show that the attacks have been orchestrated from Pakistan by members of the ousted Taliban government with little interference by the Pakistani authorities, Afghan officials say. In taped interviews by an Afghan interrogator, two Afghans and three Pakistanis who were among 21 people arrested in recent weeks described their roles in the attacks, which have killed at least 70 people in the last three months, most of them Afghan civilians but also international peacekeepers, a Canadian diplomat and a dozen Afghan police officers and soldiers.
In the tape, the men described a fairly low-budget network that begins with the recruitment of young bombers in Karachi. The bombers are moved to safe houses in Quetta and Chaman, and then transferred into Afghanistan, where they are sent out to find a target. NYT News Service