A TOP Taliban commander was arrested in southern Afghanistan and admitted distributing more than $US1 million to supporters of the ousted militia, a senior intelligence official said today. Intelligence agents captured Mullah Mujahid yesterday evening in a raid on a compound in Shah Wali Kot, a district of Kandahar province 240 kilometres south-west of the capital, Kabul, said Abdullah, the Kandahar intelligence chief.
"We got a tip that he was hiding in that house, so we surrounded it and caught him," said Abdullah, who goes by one name.
| Note how the Afghan intel agents understand the word, "surrounded." |
A second suspected Taliban militant, Nisar Hamed, was also detained.
It was unclear if they were arrested peacefully. Abdullah said Mujahid was a Taliban commander in Takhar province before a US bombardment drove the hardline militia from power in late 2001. |