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Kabul takes a snow day
Above: Afghan girls embrace in the snow on a
hilltop overlooking the capital. Left: An Afghan
man loses his balance Monday as he tries to
stand on top of a snowman in Kabul,
Afghanistan, Monday
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BY BABAR DOGAR
The Associated Press
LAHORE, Pakistan -- Au-
thorities arrested six suspected
Taliban militants with a suicide
vest and hand grenades allegedly
on their way Monday to attack a
five-star hotel and kill Americans
in Pakistan's cultural capital, said
police.
The eastern city of Lahore
has suffered a spate of bomb-
ings at markets and security in-
stallations in recent years as the
Taliban have expanded attacks
beyond their main sanctuary in
the northwest. Militants have also
targeted hotels and restaurants in
other parts of Pakistan popular
with Westerners.
The militants arrested Monday
on the outskirts of Lahore includ-
ed a 14-year-old boy and a prayer
leader from Pakistan's Khyber
tribal area near the Afghan bor-
Militants arrested for alleged plot
K.M.CHAUDARY/AP
Alleged militants stand hooded in police custody on Monday in La-
hore, Pakistan. Police say they have arrested six suspected Taliban
militants, who were allegedly planning to attack U.S. tourists.
In Pakistan, police
say six suspected
Taliban sought to
attack Americans
der, said police official Zulfikar
Hameed. The prayer leader was
wearing a vest packed with explo-
sives. They told police they were
targeting Americans at the Pearl
Continental hotel, he said.
"We think they were on their
waytolaunchtheattack,"saidHa-
meed. "They told us that Ameri-
cans are responsible for the death
of every innocent Muslim in the
so-called war on terror."
Police seized 26 hand grenades
and five detonators from the mili-
tants, who were traveling by car
and motorcycle, said Hameed.
Despite their intentions, the men
didn't know for certain whether
any Americans were staying at
the hotel, he said.
A Pakistani Taliban suicide
bomber struck the Pearl Conti-
nental hotel in the northwestern
city of Peshawar in June, killing
nine people. A suicide truck at-
tack against the Marriott Hotel
in Islamabad in 2008 killed more
than 50 people.
Pakistan suffers from frequent
political violence as well.
Gunmen attacked a vehicle
carrying a former Pakistani gov-
ernment minister just outside the
capital on Monday, killing three
of his aides shortly after he gave
a campaign speech for a vacant
parliamentary seat.
The attack against former In-
formation Minister Sheikh Ra-
sheed Ahmad occurred in the
garrison town of Rawalpindi,
near Islamabad, said police offi-
cial Atlaf Ahmad.
The former minister hurt his
leg as he fell out of the vehicle,
said Ahmad's spokesman, Javed
Qureshi.

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