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KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan-international security force searched a compound west of the town of Nakhonay, in the Panjwayee district of Kandahar last night and captured a Taliban commander and other insurgents responsible for planning IED attacks and ambushes against Afghan and coalition forces.
No shots were fired and no Afghan citizens were harmed during the operation.
In other operations, a joint security force found a weapons cache in the Maiwand district of Kandahar yesterday. The cache contained 50 mortar rounds and 20 car batteries. An ISAF explosive ordnance disposal team is assisting with disposal of the cache.
In the Farah province yesterday, an ISAF patrol found a weapons cache near the village of Ranj-e-Pa. The cache consisted of four artillery rounds, two kilograms of ammonium nitrate, one kilogram of an unknown explosive and IED components. The cache will be destroyed by an EOD team.
In Kandahar, Jan. 23, ISAF forces provided aid to two 12-year-old children near Khakrez after a bomb they were playing with exploded.
The children were playing near a cell phone tower when one picked up what appeared to be a long yellow piece of trash and threw it on the ground causing it to explode. Both received shrapnel wounds to their legs, eye trauma, and multiple lacerations to the face and hands. The children were treated at an ISAF medical clinic.
The greatest victims of IEDs are Afghan civilians, who suffer four times as many casualties from these devices as international forces do.
| Date Taken: | 01.30.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 01.30.2010 02:52 |
| Story ID: | 44628 |
| Location: | KABUL, AF |
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