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Top Taliban arrested: official
A TOP Taliban commander was arrested in southern Afghanistan and admitted distributing more than $US1 million to supporters of the ousted militia, a senior intelligence official said today. Intelligence agents captured Mullah Mujahid yesterday evening in a raid on a compound in Shah Wali Kot, a district of Kandahar province 240 kilometres south-west of the capital, Kabul, said Abdullah, the Kandahar intelligence chief.
"We got a tip that he was hiding in that house, so we surrounded it and caught him," said Abdullah, who goes by one name.
Note how the Afghan intel agents understand the word, "surrounded."
A second suspected Taliban militant, Nisar Hamed, was also detained.
It was unclear if they were arrested peacefully. Abdullah said Mujahid was a Taliban commander in Takhar province before a US bombardment drove the hardline militia from power in late 2001.
Posted by: Steve 2004-07-07
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