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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban Kidnap District Police Chief |
| 2010-01-24 |
| [Quqnoos] Taliban militants attacked a police patrol in Kunar province Saturday, capturing a district police chief and two other officers. The patrol, which included Jamtullah Khan, the police chief of Shaigal district in Kunar province, was attacked after midnight, provincial Police Chief Khalilullah Ziayee told AFP. "Taliban abducted the district police chief along with two other policemen," he said. It is the first abduction of a police chief by militants, said Zemarai Bashary, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry. Hundreds of Afghan businessmen, foreign journalists, politicians, aid and construction workers have been kidnapped in the past by militant groups or criminal gangs. Most of the abductions have criminal motives or are carried out in a bid to secure release of fellow fighters from Afghan jails. |
| Posted by:Fred |