Afghans detain woman with bomb under burqa
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ASADABAD, Afghanistan  - A woman carrying a waistcoat filled with explosives under her all-enveloping burqa was arrested on Monday in eastern Afghanistan, provincial officials said, in the first possible reported case of a female suicide bomber in the country.
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An outdoor wedding celebration north of the Afghan capital was attacked by assailants who threw a grenade, killing five women and wounding 18, an official said. Four suspects were detained after the blast Monday in the village of Sayadan, about 40 miles north of Kabul, said Abdul Jabar Takwa, the governor of Parwan province.
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Afghan security forces have detained a supreme court judge suspected of being involved in an August car bomb attack that killed 10 people, including three Americans, in the capital Kabul, a court official said on Saturday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A man who launched a militant Islamic group to fight US forces in Afghanistan has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of three UN workers there in October, a senior Pakistani Cabinet minister said yesterday.
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Azerbaijan's state security ministry said  on Monday it had detained a group of militant Islamists who  were preparing an armed attack near the U.S. embassy in the  ex-Soviet state's capital.
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Afghan police arrested nine people accused of arranging suicide bombings, and separately detained 12 Taliban militants suspected of planning attacks, officials said.
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Two British nationals have been arrested in Afghanistan for posing threats to national security, Afghan officials said Tuesday. The arrests were announced earlier but no nationalities given.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - Some of the 26 Taliban  members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal  to release three kidnapped U.N. workers could be in the U.S.  military jail at Guantanamo Bay, a militant spokesman said on  Monday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO troops in Afghanistan have detained a man at Kabul airport who had traces of explosives on his hands, a day after a US security firm was bombed, killing 10 people, including three Americans.
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The head of a radical Pakistani mosque at the centre of a bloody stand-off with security forces was arrested on Wednesday while trying to escape clad in a woman's burqa, officials said.
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Afghan authorities arrest three people after an attempt to shoot down President Karzai's helicopter on Thursday.
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Afghan security forces have detained a  supreme court judge suspected of being involved in an August  car bomb attack that killed 10 people, including three  Americans, in the capital Kabul, a court official said on  Saturday.
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Two British nationals have been arrested in Afghanistan for posing a threat to national security, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
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NI woman Annetta Flanigan held hostage in Afghanistan for 27 days is on her way to be reunited with her family.
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Spokesman of group claiming to hold BBC Gaza correspondent is detained, according to reports.
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The woman and her Afghan driver were kidnapped by gunmen in Kandahar on her way to work, the provincial governor said.
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Israeli soldiers have foiled a possible suicide bombing attack and detained a Palestinian woman, Israel Radio reported on Thursday.