name: Senior Taliban Commander Killed in Helmand
text: Operations Across Afghanistan Discover Large Cache of Weapons, Drugs and Insurgents ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan
  2010-07-CA-016  For Immediate Release
  
  Early Saturday morning, the senior Taliban commander for Nad-e-Ali district was killed in an ANSF and ISAF combined operation. The insurgent was known to have planned and conducted numerous suicide and roadside bombings against the Afghan people.
  "These partnered operations were aimed directly at denying insurgents the funding and material they need to carry out attacks against Afghan civilians, ANSF, and international forces," said Lt. Col. Todd Vician, an ISAF Joint Command spokesman.
  No civilians were injured in any of these operations.