2011-11-S-033
ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan
For Immediate Release

KABUL, Afghanistan (Nov. 19, 2011) — A combined Afghan and coalition security force conducted an operation in search of an al-Qaida network facilitator in Sayyidabad district, Wardak province, Friday. 

The facilitator trained insurgents and worked as a courier. He delivered messages and transported money for the al-Qaida network. 

A shooter engaged the security force with small arms fire from a building inside of the compound during the operation. Assessing an immediate threat the security force returned fire, killing the facilitator. 

The security force detained two suspected insurgents and destroyed multiple weapons to include bomb making material, firearms, grenades, and ammunition. 

No civilians were injured during the operation.