Canadian forces arrested 10 suspected Taliban during a raid in southern Afghanistan and handed them over to Afghan authorities, the Canadian military said on Friday. The men were arrested in southern Kandahar province on May 8 in an area where four Canadian soldiers were killed in a bomb blast last month. They were rounded up in a village in a strike launched after tip-off and were suspected of being "Taliban or their sympathisers", a Canadian military spokesman said on condition of anonymity. The men were captured not far from a Canadian army base in Gumbad. A large sum of Pakistani money was discovered on them and they were "equipped to carry out military operations", the spokesman said. They were taken to a coalition air base in the main southern city of Kandahar and eventually handed over to Afghan police.| Weren't even there long enough to change their money, huh? Good work, Canucks! |