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From: Abe Rein (ARein@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 15:49:42 EST
...AS TALIBAN MEMBERS REPORTEDLY KILLED, ARRESTED IN KANDAHAR
Kandahar Province Governor Gol Agha Sherzai said on 31 March that eight
members of the Taliban have been killed and 13 were arrested in military
operations in Oruzgan Province in the past week, Radio Afghanistan
reported. Sherzai rejected a claim made by senior Taliban commander
Mulla Dadullah to the BBC on 28 March in which he said the Taliban
captured 60 Afghan and two U.S. soldiers in the operation. Governor
Sherzai said Mulla Mohammad Zaher and Mulla Mohammad Gol were among the
dead and that Mulla Abdul Razaq, the former minister of commerce in the
Taliban regime, was among those arrested. Sherzai did not elaborate on
the significance of the two dead persons he named, presumably because
they were well-known figures in Kandahar. According to Radio
Afghanistan, Sherzai personally commanded the military operations in
Oruzgan, and only eight U.S. soldiers participated, performing "the
duties of communications and wireless operations." AT
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