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KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan National Security Forces with ISAF partners conducted multiple operations in the western and southern provinces of Afghanistan Friday. These operations were intended to provide increased security to the population.
Yesterday morning in Farah province, an ANSF-led combined force conducted a compound search in the Karez-e Jamal Zal village. A weapons cache, which included six rocket-propelled grenades, a mortar round, and various weapons components and material used in the construction of IED's, was seized by the combined force along with several detainees. Women and children in the compound were protected by the combined force.
In Tughrak, Kandahar province, another ANSF-led combined force provided school materials and reading glasses to villagers. Local villagers identified the need for these materials during a previous visit by the combined force.
In the Rig desert of Kandahar province, a combined force led by Afghan Special Police interdicted narcotics smugglers to disrupt insurgent funding gained through the sale of illegal narcotics. Two men were taken into police custody along with a shotgun, an assault rifle and 1,300 kilograms of opium, all of which was destroyed on site.
“Narcotics production and smuggling provides significant funding for the insurgents. This funding link between insurgents and narcotics networks allows insurgents to procure materials used to construct bombs, which injure on the people of Afghanistan. Afghan and ISAF forces will continue to target the links between the narcotics networks and the insurgents,” said Lt. Col. Todd Vician, an ISAF Joint Command spokesman.
No civilians were injured in any of these operations.
| Date Taken: | 06.26.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 06.26.2010 08:24 |
| Story ID: | 52023 |
| Location: | KABUL, AF |
| Web Views: | 267 |
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