Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Monday said it has arrested the plotters of the suicide attack on National Army hospital in Kabul in which 6 were killed and 36 others were hurt on Saturday.
A spokesman for NDS, Lutfullah Mashal, said the group that planned the attack on the 400-bed military hospital in Wazir Akbar Khan in Kabul consisted of 5 members including a national army soldier.
Two other would-be suiciders have been detained in Kabul, he added.
He said Saif al-Adel who is said to be a possible replacement of Osama Bin Laden has planned the attacks to be carried out using military uniforms.
NDS names the main plotter of the attack in the hospital as Akmal who had joined the Afghan National Army eight months ago.
"Akmal had joined the Afghan defence ministry's 53rd Battalion and was in contact with another man called Wares who covertly recruited him for the Taliban," Mr Mashal said.
Meanwhile, he also said NDS has detained a would-be suicide bomber in northern Baghlan province who is named as Taj Mohammad, but no further details are available.
Mr Mashal said the ones who are encouraged to carry out suicide attacks by insurgent networks are mainly children and youths.
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