Afghan Forces Arrest 2 Taliban Leaders
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec 14 -- Afghan forces have captured two top figures of the deposed Taliban government, including the personal security chief of leader Mohammad Omar, provincial officials said Tuesday.
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U.S. and Afghan soldiers conducting a sweep in southern Zabul province arrested 10 suspected Taliban after a firefight in a forbidding mountain area, the governor said Saturday.
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The Taliban said on Tuesday they had captured a Briton and two Afghans in the southern province of Helmand, a major drug producer, but gave no further details.
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US and Afghan troops detained 22 suspected Taliban fighters during a major search operation after a gunbattle in a southern Afghan mountain range, officials said Saturday.
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Afghan authorities arrest three people after an attempt to shoot down President Karzai's helicopter on Thursday.
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Afghan officials say they have arrested three suspects in connection with a rocket attack on a helicopter carrying President Hamid Karzai.
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Two senior political officers were accused of threatening national security after reportedly talking to the Taliban.
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Pakistani officials said that two suspects were arrested Thursday morning in Rawalpindi.
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Afghan authorities have arrested four  people suspected of being involved in the kidnap of a German  national, an Afghan minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Three suspects Taliban members have been arrested for trying to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai by firing a rocket at his helicopter during his first election campaign trip outside Kabul, officials said on Friday.
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Taliban insurgents have kidnapped two officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Afghan province of Wardak, the provincial police chief said on Thursday.
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Pakistani security forces captured the former Taliban defense minister, Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday, in what would be the highest-ranking leader from the Afghan insurgency to be arrested since it lost power in 2001.
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Police in Peru arrest the leader of a band of army reservists who seized a police station and took hostages.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Oct. 2, 2004 - Afghan intelligence agents backed by international peacekeepers arrested 25 people allegedly linked to the Taliban and al-Qaida in an early morning raid in eastern Kabul Saturday, a spokesman for the peacekeepers said.
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Two police officers were arrested Thursday in the Russian republic of Ingushetia on charges of aiding Chechen guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev, Russian officials announced.
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The Afghan government said Tuesday it had arrested two "high-ranking European officials" for posing threats to the national security of the war-torn country.
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Pakistani security forces have  captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city  of Quetta, a senior Pakistani security official and Taliban  sources said on Thursday.