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To: maceng2 who wrote (573)	9/15/2002 2:43:49 PM
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Kabul police 'foil bomb plot' news.bbc.co.uk Vehicle stops are routine since the taxi bomb Afghan police have reportedly seized a fuel tanker with explosives on board as it was being driven into the capital, Kabul. Afghan TV said a plot to carry out a terrorist attack on the city had been foiled and a number of people arrested had "confessed to the crime". No-one has been convicted of the earlier bomb attack The driver was also initially arrested but later released after police established that he had been unaware of the explosives inside the vehicle. The city was rocked by a huge car bomb on 5 September which killed at least 26 people and injured scores more. Police said the lorry had been stopped in the city's ninth ward. Correspondents say that vehicle searches are common in Kabul since the 5 September blast. Pressure on Karzai In the earlier attack, a taxi laden with explosives was blown up in a market area. It was the most serious explosion in Kabul since the fall of the Taleban in November 2001. The government blamed the ousted Taleban regime and their al-Qaeda allies although no proof was produced. On the same day, an attempt was made to assassinate President Hamid Karzai as he visited the southern city of Kandahar. Observers said after the 5 September attacks that they appeared to be a signal that al-Qaeda and the Taleban had not been destroyed.