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Key Taliban commander captured in Afghanistan | |
2010-07-10 | |
International and Afghan troops captured a Taliban commander responsible for bringing Pakistani militants across the border to launch attacks, the alliance said on Friday as US-led forces ratchet up their pursuit of insurgent leaders. The coalition is touting a string of successes in capturing or killing dozens of key militant leaders since April, but so far it has not managed to reduce violent insurgent attacks across the country.
While international forces patrol new areas to try to protect the population, their comrades in special forces, working with elite Afghan commandos, have been staging raids almost every night trying to weaken the insurgents' operational capacity. On Tuesday, coalition and Afghan special forces arrested a Taliban commander in the eastern province of Nangarhar, NATO said on Friday. The alliance said the man - whom it would not identify for security reasons - facilitated a recent influx of operatives for Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, the Pakistan-based militant group, which is accused of involvement in a string of recent attacks in Afghanistan. | |
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