name: District-level Taliban Leader Targeted in Uruzgan
text: District-level Taliban Leader Targeted in Uruzgan
  ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan 2010-12-S-023  For Immediate Release  Download PDF  KABUL, Afghanistan (Dec. 2)   A district-level Taliban leader was killed in an Afghan National Security Force and International Security Assistance Force operation in Shahid-e Hasas, Uruzgan province, yesterday. The leader, Mullah Hekmatullah, led a group of approximately 175 fighters and coordinated and participated in numerous attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. He also directed and engaged in intimidation activities by ordering the murder and beating of citizens who took aid or support from the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan or ISAF. He also was a key enabler for local fighters by providing weapons and communications equipment in western Uruzgan and northern Helmand provinces. During an operation to clear and search a reported series of weapons caches, the joint security force entered a compound and was confronted by a man brandishing a weapon. The man attacked the joint force with the weapon. The force shot the man, killing him. The man was later identified as Hekmatullah.