Subscribe
KABUL, Afghanistan - Initial reports indicate that an Afghan-international security force killed several insurgents and captured one while the force was searching for a senior Taliban commander in Ghazni this morning.
The combined force moved to a compound in the village of Bagi Kheyl, in the Qarah Bagh District, after intelligence information indicated insurgent activity. As the security force approached the compound, multiple insurgents engaged the force with machine guns, small arms, grenades, and rocket-propelled grenades. The combined force returned fire killing several insurgents.
As the combined force secured the target compound, they continued to receive small-arms fire, grenades and heavy machine-gun fire from insurgents throughout the village.
A search of the target area revealed a vehicle-mounted 12.7mm heavy machine gun, heavy-machine gun ammunition, multiple automatic rifles, grenades, RPGs, RPG launchers, and communications equipment.
In Kandahar province this morning, an ISAF patrol found 30 ammunition cans full of Russian-made ammunition and weapons parts. The cache was destroyed.
In Khowst province yesterday, an Afghan-International security force went to a compound south of Mejles, in the Sabari District, after intelligence information indicated militant activity. As the joint force neared the compound, the suspected insurgents departed in two directions. While pursuing them, the security force was engaged by one of the insurgents. The security force returned fire and killed a suspected Haqqani facilitator responsible for coordinating and procuring weapons and grenades for Sabari Haqqani network leaders.
During a search of the immediate area, the security force found a machine gun, magazines and grenades. Another suspected insurgent was detained for further questioning.
In Kandahar yesterday, a combined force targeted two suspected Taliban insurgents in a vehicle in a rural area of the Daman District after intelligence information indicated militant activity. The two insurgents demonstrated hostile intent and were shot and killed. A search of the militants found 10 blasting caps and a probable improvised explosive device.
In the Nad-e Ali District of Helmand province yesterday, an Afghan-international security force found a cache containing two RPG boosters, an 82mm mortar, nine pressure plate initiation devices, eight blasting caps, 100 feet of detonation cord, a 4.5 kilogram (10 lb) bag of aluminum powder, a 23 kg (51 lb) bag of home-made explosive, IED making materials, 200 rounds of small-arms ammunition and a disassembled anti-aircraft gun.
Another joint patrol in the same district yesterday found a cache containing six PG9 fin-stabilized, rocket-assisted warheads; two PG9 boosters; nine chest rigs; a pressure plate initiation device; a 22 kg (50 lb) jug of homemade explosive; miscellaneous shrapnel and a night letter. The hazardous items were destroyed by an explosive ordnance disposal team.
A third Afghan-international patrol in the Nad-e Ali District yesterday found a cache containing 68 kg (150 lbs) of homemade explosive and a 45 kg (100 lb) drum of ammonium nitrate. The cache was destroyed by an EOD team.
No civilians were harmed in these operations.
| Date Taken: | 04.19.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 04.19.2010 06:44 |
| Story ID: | 48326 |
| Location: | KABUL, AF |
| Web Views: | 301 |
| Downloads: | 291 |
This work, IJC Operational Update, April 19, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
