Afghan police arrest suspected mastermind of UN attack

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Source: Globe and Mail

MOHAMMAD BASHIR
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN— The Associated Press
Published Friday, Apr. 01, 2011 11:06AM EDT
Last updated Friday, Apr. 01, 2011 4:33PM EDT

An Afghan official says police have arrested the suspected mastermind behind the attack on a UN compound that killed seven of the world body's foreign staff.

Rawof Taj, deputy police chief in Balkh province, said the suspected mastermind was from Kapisa province, a hotbed of the insurgency about 400 kilometres southeast of Mazar-i-Sharif, where the attack occurred.

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At least eight foreigners were among the dead after attackers took out security guards, burned parts of the compound and climbed up blast walls to topple a guard tower, said Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a police spokesman for the northern region.

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Long-standing anger over civilian casualties has been heightened by the Koran burning and the recent publication of gruesome photographs of the body of an unarmed Afghan teenager killed by U.S. soldiers.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/afghan-police-arrest-suspected-mastermind-of-un-attack/article1966938/

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1. It seems they have changed the title & updated the story with how things unfolded at that link.

Forbes' website has the story posted in the OP: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/04/01/general-as-afghanistan_8386952.html