Taliban kidnap 50 police in Afghanistan

Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan claimed to have kidnapped 50 people in the police This region north of the country. Kidnapping is one of murder and intimidation campaign for those who support the Afghan government supported the United States.

According to reports from the police chief of Kunar province, Khalilullah Ziayi, quoted from page Associated Press, Sunday, March 27, 2011, Taliban militants ambushed a police party which was going to Kunar on Saturday afternoon.

Ziayi said that the kidnapped mostly new police who had just completed their training in Nuristan province to join the Afghan national police. Although the Taliban claimed they had kidnapped 50 people, but Ziayi said did not know the exact number of those abducted.

From the first, police in the Nuristan region and other areas in Afghanistan have been the target of the militants. Most of the policemen who were abducted are usually released after they promised not to work as a police or other positions in the government of Afghanistan.

Not yet known the fate of the 50 policemen who were abducted. But according Ziayi, their fate will be determined by the Taliban military commander in eastern Afghanistan. "The decision will be taken by looking at the situation that developed in the field," he said.

Meanwhile, in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the Afghan intelligence agency spokesman, Lutfullah Mashal, said that they managed to thwart the transfer of explosives in the province of Wardak.

On a successful truck seized, found 10 explosive vests for suicide, 750 kilograms of explosives, 648 detonators and 1,000-meter distance explosive detonator cord. "They want to make 500 bombs of these materials," Mashal said.

Mashal also said that they had arrested seven militants who want to attack in the Afghan New Year celebrations, 21 March. He said that seven people this plan will do a suicide bombing. They are members of the Haqqani network, one offshoot of al-Qaeda.

"They target the security officers, government officials and civilians in Kabul. Fortunately, they were arrested by security officers, so that they successfully thwarted the plan," he said.