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text: 2012-07-S-057
  For Immediate Release
   
   
  KABUL, Afghanistan (July 30, 2012)   An Afghan and coalition security force conducted a counter-narcotics operation in Nad  Ali district, Helmand province, today.
   
  During the operation, an armed insurgent threatened the combined security force. The Afghan and coalition troops positively identified the attacker then engaged and killed him.
   
  After the engagement, the security force detained two suspected drug dealers and seized multiple weapons, several kilograms of heroin and half a million Pakistani rupees ($5,285).