Three senior Taliban officials, arrested in Pakistan, have been handed over to the US military at the Bagram base, the Pajhwok Afghan News agency quoted an Afghan intelligence source as saying on Monday. The officials in the US custody were Maulvi Mohammad Taha, former Nangarhar Province chief of police; Mulla Abdul Razzaq, Taliban's top military commander, and Syed Akbar Agha, leader of a Taliban splinter faction, Jaish-e-Muslimeen. The Kabul-based Afghan news agency said Syed Akbar Agha was suspected of being involved in the kidnapping of three United Nations elections workers in Kabul in October last year. | The three in that picture don't look so senior to me ... |
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