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text: 2012-03-S-023
  For Immediate Release
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (Mar. 23)
  An Afghan and coalition security force captured a Taliban facilitator during an operation in Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, today. The facilitator provided weapons and bomb-making materials to insurgents throughout the district and western Kandahar province. He was also participating in illegal narcotics trafficking to fund insurgent attacks against Afghan and coalition security forces. The security force detained one additional suspected insurgent as a result of this operation.