name: 3
text: 2012-12-S-009
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (Dec. 7, 2012)
  During an operation in Kandahar district, Kandahar province, today, an Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban leader who was responsible for transporting and distributing homemade explosives and improvised explosive device components to insurgents in the province. The security force also detained one suspected insurgent as a result of the operation.