ISAF Joint Command evening operational update

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

02.25.2011

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ISAF Joint Command

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan National Security and International Security Assistance Forces Feb. 25, confirmed the capture of an insurgent leader responsible for improvised explosive devices attacks in Uruzgan province.

The detained insurgent is suspected of being the head of a Baluchi IED cell responsible for attacks on Afghan and coalition forces in Baluchi Valley, Uruzgan province.

In other ISAF news throughout Afghanistan:

South

In Zharay District, Kandahar province, an Afghan National Security Force and ISAF patrol discovered an IED cache consisting of 28 three quart (three liters) jugs, two five gallon (19 liters) jugs and eight, six quart (five liters) jugs filled with homemade explosives, one pressure cooker filled with HME material, two 40 pound (18 kilograms) jugs of heavy machine gun ammunition rounds and one type 65 mortar filled with HME material. All items were wrapped in detonation cord, ready to be emplaced as improvised explosive devices, the patrol reported.

A second cache site was found in the area consisting of one 500 gallon (1,900 liters) tank filled with multiple 155 mm rounds, various anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, multiple jugs of homemade explosives, pressure plates and detonation wire.

In Panjwa’i District, Kandahar province, an Afghan and coalition forces patrol discovered a weapons cache consisting of 11 grenades, 200 7.62 mm rounds, three RPG warheads, several loose weapon parts, five gallons (20 liters) of ammonium nitrate, 250 feet (76 meters) of detonation cord, two rolls of copper wire, and various additional IED components and instruction manuals.

All weapons have been or will be destroyed by security forces.

• Date Taken: 02.25.2011
• Date Posted: 02.25.2011 14:11
• Story ID: 66084
• Location: KABUL, AF