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Kabul police chief, Gen. Deen Mohammad Jurat, said the former Prime Minister, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, head of Hezb-e-Islami, a radical Islamic group that once was supported by the United States, was behind the plot. Several hundred people were arrested in the last two days. ``They were planning to carry out destructive activities like bombing places in Kabul and attacking peacekeepers,'' Gen. Jurat told Reuters. He said Mr. Hekmatyar's son-in-law, Sabawon, was among those arrested in swoops that found several large arms caches to be used in the plot. Gen. Jurat described Mr. Hekmatyar as an ally of the ousted Taliban who wanted to bring down Mr. Karzai's western-supported government and bring back the Taliban's fundamentalist rule. ``He has good and close relations with the Taliban. There is no difference between him and the Taliban. He was planning a coup to bring back the Taliban,'' Gen. Jurat said. Gen. Jurat also said the plotters possibly planned to assassinate ex-King Zahir Shah, whose return home from exile in Rome has been expected for several weeks. — Reuters
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