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ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan

2010-06-CA-027 
For Immediate Release\n\nKABUL, Afghanistan (June 9)\n A Taliban improvised explosive device (IED) commander and several other suspected insurgents were captured by an Afghan-international security force in Kandahar Province last night.\n The Taliban commander was responsible for bringing together IED experts to construct the devices, and was also a member of a Taliban assassination cell in Kandahar City. He and the other suspects were captured in a compound in a rural area of Arghandab district after intelligence information verified militant activity.\n There were no shots fired and no one was harmed during the above operations.", "StartDate": "2010-06-08", "eventtype": "detention", "province": "Kandahar", "citydistrict": "Arghandab", "village": "", "targetgroup": "Taliban", "commander": "", "position": "IED commander;assassination cell member", "minkilled": "0", "mincaptured": "4", "capturedcharacterisation": "commander;several others", "killedcharacterisation": "", "killq": "false", "captureq": "true", "killcaptureraid": "true", "airstrike": "false", "noshotsfired": "true", "dataprocessed": "true", "flagged": "false", "glossarymeta": "false", "minleaderskilled": "0", "minfacilitatorskilled": "0", "minleaderscaptured": "0", "minfacilitatorscaptured": "0","leaderq":"false"}