From an International Security
Assistance Force Joint Command News Release
KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 29, 2012 – An
Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban weapons supplier during
an operation in the Andar district of Afghanistan’s Ghazni province today,
military officials reported.
The weapons supplier provided Taliban
leaders in Ghazni with improvised explosive devices, other weapons and
ammunition, officials said.
The security force also detained two
additional suspected insurgents during the operation.
Also today, a combined force arrested a
Taliban leader and detained two other suspects in the Kandahar district of
Kandahar province. The Taliban leader distributed weapons and explosives to
Taliban fighters. He also is suspected of being involved in planning the
assassination of an Afghan government official in Kandahar.
In an operation yesterday in the Lashkar
Gah district of Helmand province, a combined force found mortar rounds, two
IEDs, bomb-making equipment, and 7,716 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a compound
used to produce homemade explosives.
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