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Afghans capture 2 Taliban chiefs
Afghan Army forces captured two senior Taliban commanders whom they blame for a string of bombings and other violence in western Afghanistan, said General Zaher Azimi, an army spokesman.
The two prisoners were immediately handed over to U.S. forces, he said Sunday.
One of those captured was Hajji Sultan, the former Taliban military commander for the western zone of Afghanistan covering Farah and Nimruz Provinces and the Shindand region.
"He is accused of assisting in the construction and emplacement of improvised explosive devices in western Afghanistan," the U.S. military said in a statement.
"He is also accused of harboring a large cache of weapons stolen while he was a division commander under the Taliban government and having ties to narcotics smuggling operations," the U.S. military said.
Sultan was the main facilitator for insurgents in the western region during the past three years, said Muhammad Rasul, who was the security chief in Farah until recently.
"He was like a financier," Rasul said. "Money would come from Pakistan, and he would distribute it to other Taliban members to do their attacks."
The other arrested commander was Mullah Muhammad Rahim, a former deputy frontline commander from western Afghanistan.
The Afghan police and the army had been following the two Taliban commanders for some time.
They were captured in a raid on a house in Farah on Saturday, Azimi said.
Farah, a remote desert land that borders Iran, has been troubled more with other crime than with insurgent activity by the Taliban, which remain stronger in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
A NATO peacekeeping force took over military command of the western region, including Farah, from U.S.-led forces last month.
In a separate incident, the U.S. military reported that a joint U.S.-Afghan patrol was ambushed Saturday in southeastern Afghanistan, south of Qalat in Zabul Province.
One insurgent suspect was killed and three others were detained in the clash, a statement issued from Bagram Air Base said. No Afghan or U.S. troops were wounded, it said.
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