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text: KABUL, Afghanistan (Dec. 16)
  Today, in Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, a combined Afghan and coalition security force captured a Taliban leader. The leader received shipments of weapons from Pakistan and distributed the weapons to senior Taliban insurgent leaders in Helmand and Kandahar. The security force confiscated bomb making material and detained multiple additional suspected insurgents during the operation.