KABUL, Afghanistan (Jan. 8) – An Afghan and coalition security force captured a senior Taliban network facilitator named Mashahud during a security operation in Surkh Rod district, Nangarhar province, January 1.
Mashahud is a well-known weapons facilitator who planned large-scale attacks against the local populace throughout the region. He has also been linked to a command wire bomb attack on Dec. 21, 2011, that killed five people in Ghazni.