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Afghanistan arrests suspect in attack on NATO base

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan’s intelligence service says it has arrested a Pakistani man suspected of leading a botched assault on a NATO base last week that left seven insurgents dead.

A spokesman for the Afghan agency, Lutfullah Mashal, said on Tuesday that the man is a 26-year-old from the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Mashal says the man sneaked into Afghanistan a day before the April 5 attack on NATO’s base in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
The insurgents tried to storm the base firing assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. Seven of the attackers were killed. There were no coalition casualties.
Mashal released no other details on the circumstances of the arrest.