ISAF Joint Command Evening Operational Update May 8, 2011
ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan  2011-05-S-025 For Immediate Release  KABUL, Afghanistan (May 8, 2011) – A combined Afghan National Security and International Security Assistance Force detained two targeted individuals in Ghazni district, Ghazni province yesterday.  One of the men is suspected of being responsible for supplying senior Taliban leadership in northern Ghazni province with weapons and explosive materials. The other man was detained for allegedly supplying insurgent and Taliban groups in Ghazni province with suicide vests. He also is suspected of planning to kidnap Afghan security force members.  Security forces recovered one suicide vest with explosives, 40 25 mm grenades, an IED constructed with 18 pounds (8 kilograms) of explosives, two AK-47s and two tactical vests with associated ammunition.  Both men, including a third man who tested positive for recently handling explosives, were taken by Afghan authorities for processing and further questioning.