{ "name": "Taliban Leader for Jaghato District Targeted Overnight", "eventrefnumber": "2010-10-CA-064", "text": "Taliban Leader for Jaghato District Targeted Overnight\nISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan
2010-10-CA-064 
For Immediate Release
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KABUL, Afghanistan (Oct. 6) - Afghan and coalition security forces targeted a Taliban senior leader operating who facilitates weapons, conducts attacks and leads an improvised explosive device cell in Jaghato district of Wardak province, during an overnight operation in neighboring Ghazni province. 

Intelligence tips led the security force to a compound in Rashidan district to search for the targeted individual. As the joint security force began to clear the targeted compound, an insurgent threatened the security force. They engaged and killed him. 

After the area was secure, the joint security force conducted initial questioning with the residents at the scene, before detaining one suspected insurgent. 

The security force discovered and destroyed a recoilless rifle with rounds, multiple magazines and machine gun ammunition at the scene. 

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