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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan National Security Forces with ISAF partners completed operations to disrupt insurgent activity in Kabul recently.
A National Directorate of Security and ISAF combined force conducted an operation in Kabul City, July 16, to detain a senior Taliban commander. The insurgent has been linked to attacks against the United Nations in Panjshayr and was assessed to be planning attacks in Kabul.
NDS officials arrested the insurgent as he was walking in the city.
That same day on the western outskirts of Kabul City, a Ministry of Interior and ISAF combined force successfully located and rendered safe an improvised explosive device that had been placed on the edge of a major public road. This operation prevented the IED from harming Afghans and combined forces.
Also on July 16, an MOI and ISAF combined force conducted an operation south of Kabul in Mohammad Agah district in Logar province to detain a low-level Taliban commander and facilitator of weapons, explosives and IEDs. The individual was involved in several attacks against government infrastructure. After surrounding a compound of interest, Afghan officials entered and arrested the individual and two associates.
On July 15 in Surobi District in Kabul province, an Afghan National Police and ISAF combined force recovered a weapons cache. The cache, containing 38 anti-personal mines, 10 anti-tank mines, 30 recoilless rifle rounds, 38 61mm mortar rounds and small arms ammunition, was destroyed on site. The aim of this operation was to disrupt insurgents' access to material required to continue attacks against Afghans, ANSF and ISAF troops.
No civilians were injured in the operations.
| Date Taken: | 07.21.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 07.21.2010 00:49 |
| Story ID: | 53136 |
| Location: | KABUL, AF |
| Web Views: | 164 |
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