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Weapons cache found in Afghanistan
Associated Press
Published August 1, 2005
KABUL, Afghanistan - Thousands of rockets, mortars and antiaircraft ammunition have been seized in central Afghanistan in the largest cache of militant weapons discovered in months, a government spokesman said Sunday.
The arms were to be used to subvert crucial legislative elections on Sept. 18, Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammed Saher Azimi said.
The raid in Ghazni province's Khogyani district Saturday netted some 2,000 surface-to-surface rockets, 3,000 mortar rounds, 500 artillery shells and 100 boxes of antiaircraft bullets, he said.
He declined to say if the Taliban was suspected to be responsible or if arrests were made.
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