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| Marines Hold ’High Value’ Taliban Commander |
| 2004-07-01 |
| TARIN KOT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. Marines arrested a Taliban commander they described as a "high value" provincial target and killed another guerrilla in a sweeping operation in the central Afghan province of Uruzgan on Thursday. The Marines did not name the commander detained in the Tarin Kot region whose face matched a photo on their list of wanted guerrillas. But Captain James Martin, commander of Bravo Company of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, described him as a "high-value target for the province." "He appears to be possibly a very important Taliban who we arrested in a cordon and search effort," he told a Reuters reporter accompanying hundreds of Marines, Afghan National Army soldiers and militia forces. |
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