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Forces in Afghanistan Capture Key Taliban Leaders
American Forces Press Service ^

Posted on 08/31/2009 4:32:07 PM PDT by SandRat

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Aug. 31, 2009 – Afghan forces and NATO-led International Security Assistance troops captured two key Taliban leaders, including a commander, during a joint operation in the Kanday village of Chapa Dara district in Afghanistan’s Kunar province Aug. 29.

Qari Azimullah is a Taliban commander in the district, and has been directly linked to several roadside-bomb attacks in the province, one of which resulted in the recent death of a U.S. servicemember.

A second captured man is another suspected Taliban leader in the area who also has been linked to bombings in Kunar province, officials said.

Two additional men were detained. A large weapons cache, including a suicide vest and bomb-making materials, was seized during the operation.

Afghan and ISAF troops protected several women and children who were nearby during the operation when insurgents began firing weapons at troops in the village. No civilians, Afghan troops or ISAF soldiers were killed or injured during the operation, officials said.

(From a Combined Joint Task Force 82 news release.)


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; captured; frwn; taliban

1 posted on 08/31/2009 4:32:07 PM PDT by SandRat
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To: 91B; HiJinx; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; clintonh8r; TEXOKIE; windchime; freekitty; majhenrywest; ...
FR WAR NEWS!
If you would like to be added to / removed from FRWN,
please FReepmail Sandrat.

WARNING: FRWN can be an EXTREMELY HIGH-VOLUME PING LIST!!

2 posted on 08/31/2009 4:32:36 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

To win, we need to capture and dispose of MoHAM-MAD.


3 posted on 08/31/2009 4:35:00 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: SandRat

GOOD NEWS thread bump.


4 posted on 08/31/2009 4:35:36 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: SandRat; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Cannoneer No. 4; ..

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5 posted on 08/31/2009 4:39:31 PM PDT by Clive
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6 posted on 08/31/2009 4:41:24 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: Cindy

Make sure they get treated nice.


7 posted on 08/31/2009 4:41:37 PM PDT by Jerrybob
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To: Jerrybob

dead men can’t be mollycoddled


8 posted on 08/31/2009 4:43:46 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khital)
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To: SandRat
It is my understanding that all Taliban caught are to be turned over to the Afghan government within 96 hours.

I wonder if these vermin will be given over to the government

It's Obama catch and release program

9 posted on 08/31/2009 4:46:31 PM PDT by Popman (Obama "may" be a US citizen, but he's not an American)
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To: Paladin2

We are never going to win unless Islam itself is addressed.
If it is not, we are going to end up just like the UK with Muslims.


10 posted on 08/31/2009 5:56:14 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: SandRat

Thanks for the updates SandRat, I’ve got a buddy over in Afghanistan and aside from the few messages he’s been able to post your posts are the best updates I see!!


11 posted on 08/31/2009 8:51:35 PM PDT by FlashBack ('0'bama: "Katrina on a Global Level")
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To: Popman

They’ll go into the Afghani’s Tender Care.


12 posted on 08/31/2009 8:53:46 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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I bet they practice “enhanced” interrogation techniques.


13 posted on 08/31/2009 9:02:50 PM PDT by Nachoman (Think of life as an adventure you don't survive.)
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