2011-11-S-039
ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan
For Immediate Release

KABUL, Afghanistan (Nov. 23, 2011) — A Taliban leader was captured today by a combined Afghan and coalition security force after returning to  Afghanistan from Pakistan. 
Wali Mohammad and four of his associates were detained during a security operation in Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province. The security force received information that Mohammad was visiting southern Afghanistan after being in hiding for several years in Pakistan. 
Wali Mohammad was the Taliban leader behind numerous suicide and spectacular attacks that targeted and killed multiple civilians in southern Afghanistan. Mohammad fled the country and has been hiding across the border since he escaped during a raid of the Kandahar Sarposa Prison in 2008. 
Mohammad was also closely connected to the Taliban’s Chief of the Rahbari Shura and the direct-subordinate of high-level military leaders in the insurgent network. 
In addition to Mohammad, four associates a quantity of bomb making materials were also seized.