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Afghanistan
Key Taliban commander captured in Afghanistan
2010-07-10
International and Afghan troops captured a Taliban commander responsible for bringing Pakistani militants across the border to launch attacks, the alliance said on Friday as US-led forces ratchet up their pursuit of insurgent leaders.

The coalition is touting a string of successes in capturing or killing dozens of key militant leaders since April, but so far it has not managed to reduce violent insurgent attacks across the country.
Neither the journalist nor his editor have read Tipping Point, it appears. These things are not straight-line, but suddenly reach the point when behaviour changes drastically.
On Friday, an explosion ripped into a convoy of NATO and Afghan forces in an eastern province, killing one civilian and injuring nine others. Last month was also the most deadly of the nearly 9-year-old war for international troops, with 103 foreign forces killed. US President Barack Obama has sent 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan to carry out the war's counterinsurgency strategy, which focuses on securing the Afghan population and reversing Taliban gains.

While international forces patrol new areas to try to protect the population, their comrades in special forces, working with elite Afghan commandos, have been staging raids almost every night trying to weaken the insurgents' operational capacity.

On Tuesday, coalition and Afghan special forces arrested a Taliban commander in the eastern province of Nangarhar, NATO said on Friday.

The alliance said the man - whom it would not identify for security reasons - facilitated a recent influx of operatives for Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, the Pakistan-based militant group, which is accused of involvement in a string of recent attacks in Afghanistan.
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