Afghan Spy Agency Says It Thwarted Attacks.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's intelligence agency, which has come under fire from Afghans for failing to detect multiple attacks here last weekend, said Saturday that it had apprehended militants plotting to kill one of the country's vice presidents and another group smuggling tons of explosives into the capital hidden in a truck of potatoes. In both plots the evidence pointed toward planners in Pakistan, the agency said, and in the case of the plan to assassinate Karim Khalili, the country's second vice president, the would-be attackers were linked to the Haqqani network, a Pakistan-based criminal network, according to their own confessions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]