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text: 2012-08-S-046
  For Immediate Release
   
   
  KABUL, Afghanistan (Aug. 26, 2012)
  The National Directorate of Security and coalition forces confirmed today that the mid-level Taliban leader, Haji Padcha, was one of several insurgents detained during an operation in Spin Boldak district, Kandahar province, Aug. 23. Padcha was a weapons facilitator responsible for supplying insurgents with the rockets used in numerous attacks against Kandahar Airfield. 