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Afghan troops suspected in plot to launch Kabul attack

Defense ministry put in lockdown, soldiers arrested; could signal new surge by Taliban

By Jawad Sukhanyar and Matthew Rosenberg

 |  New York Times  

  March 28, 2012

The Afghan Defense Ministry went into a near-total lockdown Tuesday after the discovery of 10 suicide vests and the arrest of more than a dozen Afghan soldiers suspected of plotting to attack the ministry and blow up commuter buses for government employees, Afghan and Western officials said.

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