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Taleban commander may be surrounded: official

Afghan and NATO troops have surrounded more than 200 Taleban insurgents and their feared military commander Mullah Dadullah might be among them, a senior Afghan security official said on Tuesday. A Taleban spokesman denied that Dadullah was surrounded and said he was not even in Uruzgan province, where provincial security chief General Muhammad Qasim said the Taleban were surrounded. “We got information that senior Taleban commanders came for a meeting in the area. We want to capture all of the Taleban including the commanders,” Qasim told Reuters. A spokesman for NATO force said they had no information about fighting in Uruzgan. It is not the first time Afghan security officials have believed Dadullah, a one-legged commander in charge of the insurgency in the south of the country, was surrounded. Last year Afghan officials thought he had been killed in a battle...

Posted on 27 April 2007 @ 15:28