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Insurgent Seized Aboard Afghan Airliner By ROD NORDLAND <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/rod_nordland/i ndex.html?inline=nyt-per> Published: November 10, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan At least one passenger suspected of being an insurgent managed to board an Afghan airliner bound for the Middle East before the authorities ordered the plane to return to Kabul, Afghan and NATO <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/north_a tlantic_treaty_organization/index.html?inline=nyt-org> officials said Wednesday. There were conflicting accounts about where the flight was headed and the number of suspects involved in the episode, which occurred Monday. A press release from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, said the Afghan authorities had been looking for a Haqqani network weapons facilitator and discovered that he was on a flight to Saudi Arabia. The plane was ordered to return and landed at Kabul International Airport. Members of the Haqqani network are close allies of the Taliban <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/t/taliban /index.html?inline=nyt-org> , operating out of Pakistan as well as central and eastern Afghanistan <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/af ghanistan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> . When the authorities boarded the aircraft, the ISAF statement said, the suspected insurgent identified himself to the security forces and was arrested without incident. Three other people traveling with him were also arrested, it said. A press release from the National Directorate of Security, the Afghan intelligence agency, gave a different account, mentioning the arrest of only one person, who it said was trying to flee to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, rather than to Saudi Arabia. The Afghan statement said the suspect was not planning to hijack the aircraft but was only trying to flee the country. We assure our noble countrymen that the detention of the individual was not for the probability of a terrorist act or hijacking, the statement said. The Afghans identified the suspect only as a terrorist rather than as a member of a particular group. Both statements said the suspect had been under investigation but offered no explanation for how he was able to board an international flight in Kabul. No major foreign passenger airlines fly into Afghanistan because of longstanding concerns about security at its airports. The international forces statement said that the suspect was wanted for providing weapons and ammunition used in attacks against Afghan and NATO security forces and that he had participated in numerous attacks using improvised explosive devices <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/improvised_e xplosive_devices/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier> . ¶ Four United States senators visited Kabul on Wednesday, the first such visit since the midterm elections returned a Republican majority to the House of Representatives. After briefings with American diplomats and military officials, the delegation held a news conference to announce plans to meet with President Hamid Karzai <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/hamid_karzai/i ndex.html?inline=nyt-per> and to deliver a dual message: that the United States remained committed to Afghanistan and that improvement on fighting corruption was critical. In an increasingly partisan time in Washington, there remains on certain critical matters of foreign policy a bipartisan consensus, and this is one of them, said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/joseph_i_liebe rman/index.html?inline=nyt-per> , a Connecticut independent. Support of success for the new Afghanistan. Senator John McCain <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/john_mccain/in dex.html?inline=nyt-per> , an Arizona Republican and former presidential candidate, said the members of the delegation planned to forcefully raise the issue of corruption with Mr. Karzai. We will bring up a couple of recent events that are very disturbing, Mr. McCain said. He did not elaborate, but on Monday, Afghan officials said that corruption charges had been dropped against a Karzai aide, Mohammed Zia Salehi <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/mohammed_zia_s alehi/index.html?inline=nyt-per> . Mr. Karzai had intervened to have Mr. Salehi released from prison after he was arrested by an antigraft unit <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/world/asia/07afghan.html> in late July. The case was embarrassing to the Americans, however, as it emerged that Mr. Salehi had been on the payroll <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/world/asia/26kabul.html> of the Central Intelligence Agency <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/central _intelligence_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org> . Every time there is a corruption case, Mr. Lieberman said, it makes it harder for us in Congress in a budget-difficult environment to sustain the support we need here. Thats why its in our interest and President Karzais interest to fight corruption. The delegation also included Senators Lindsey Graham <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/lindsey_graham /index.html?inline=nyt-per> , Republican of South Carolina, and Kirsten Gillibrand <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/kirsten_gillib rand/index.html?inline=nyt-per> , Democrat of New York, both members of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. ¶ Also on Wednesday, Taliban fighters killed seven Afghan police officers at a post in central Oruzgan Province, according to the acting provincial governor, Hajji Khudia Rahim. He said the police officers were killed as they slept when another officer betrayed them and let the Taliban into the building, in the Khas Oruzgan district. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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