Meanwhile, the war continues against the OTHER form of totalitarianism afflicting the Muslim world...

MSNBC

KABUL, Afghanistan, April 13 — A car packed with explosives exploded in eastern Afghanistan, killing four people who apparently were planning a terrorist attack, an Afghan military official said Sunday...

‘They were planning some kind of terrorist attack, but we don’t know what their target was.’
— KHIAL BAZ
Afghanistan regional commander

...The blast late Saturday in Karwan Sarui, four miles east of the town of Khost, killed two unidentified Pakistani nationals and one man from Yemen, said Khial Baz, a regional commander. Baz said the fourth man was Bacha Malkhui, a former intelligence officer for the deposed Taliban government. He was driving the car.

“They were planning some kind of terrorist attack, but we don’t know what their target was,” Baz told The Associated Press by telephone from Khost.

Malkhui’s mother, who was passing by at the time, was wounded in the leg, Baz said.

Security forces found the vehicle’s charred remains near Malkhui’s house. Baz said the vehicle was a taxi and had come from across the border in neighboring Pakistan.

Security forces had been searching for Malkhui, after he was accused of firing two rockets toward a U.S. base in the same area a month ago, Baz said.

A search of his house overnight turned up two Kalashnikov assault rifles, Baz said.