name: Suspected Taliban leader and an associate detained in Wardak
text: ISAF Joint Command Evening Operational Update Feb. 9, 2011
  ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan 2011-02-S-065 For Immediate Release  KABUL, Afghanistan (Feb. 9)   A joint Afghan National Security and International Security Assistance Force patrol detained a suspected Taliban leader and an associate in Sayyidabad district, Wardak province yesterday. The target was detained by Afghan forces for allegedly commanding approximately 20 fighters in Wardak, moving groups of fighters back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan and funding Taliban groups in the area. Intelligence reports and tips from local citizens led the joint patrol to a compound thought to be associated with the target. The force knocked on the door and the man who answered identified himself as the target of the operation. The target and an associate were detained by Afghan forces on a Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan warrant.