Report: Second, more powerful EFP found in Afghanistan, this time in Kabul

Above: The Afghan National Army Honor Guard at the Kabul Military Training Center in May. KMTC is responsible for training every Afghan National Army soldier and is the only boot camp in the country.

Afghan security forces found a sophisticated roadside bomb of the type used in Iraq for the first time in the center of the capital, Kabul, and it was primed to hit a convoy of high-ranking Afghan officials, an Afghan intelligence official said Monday.

A NATO spokeswoman, Lieutenant Colonel Maria Carl, confirmed that the type of bomb, called an explosively formed projectile, or a shaped charge, was found in Kabul in May.

The bomb contained 16 kilos of explosive and was set to be detonated by remote control from up to one kilometer away, the intelligence official said, asking not to be named because of the secret nature of his job. The bomb was found in the western part of Kabul, set beside the road probably to target a convoy of Afghan high ranking officials or international forces, he said...

Colonel Carl said it was the second such shaped charge found in Afghanistan, and that it was a little more sophisticated that the first. The first one was found in April in western Afghanistan, a region that borders on Iran.

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