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    IJC Operational Update, March 5

    KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

    03.05.2010

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    ISAF Joint Command

    KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan-international security force searched a compound south of the village of Chalghowi, in the Panjwa'I district of Kandahar province last night after intelligence information indicated militant activity.

    During the search the joint force detained three suspected militants.

    In Khowst last night, a joint security force searched a compound northwest of Goldar, in the Sabari district, after intelligence information indicated militant activity. During the search the joint force detained a suspected insurgent and found weapons parts.

    In Paktika province last night, an Afghan-international security force searched a compound south of the town of Orgun, in the Orgun district after intelligence information indicated militant activity.

    During the search the security force captured a Haqqani weapons facilitator responsible for the purchase and movement of weapons, including machine guns and antiaircraft components.

    Another insurgent was also detained.

    In Wardak province this morning, a joint security force searched a compound outside the village of Lala Khel, in the Chak-e Wardak district, after intelligence information indicated militant activity. As the assault force approached the compound an armed insurgent fled. A part of the security force followed and called for him to surrender. When the insurgent tried to engage them with a machine gun, the security force killed the insurgent.

    The joint force found several weapons in the compound and on the insurgent, including grenades, an automatic rifle, a machine gun and a rocket-propelled grenade.

    In other operations, an ISAF patrol searched a vehicle in the Reg-e Khan Neshin district of Helmand yesterday.

    During the search the patrol found two 107mm rockets, an RPG warhead, two anti-tank land mines, a Chinese mortar round, three 107mm rocket fuses, 20 14.5mm rounds and a 122mm projectile. An explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the weapons.

    In the Chorah district of Uruzgan province, officers from the Afghan National Police on a joint patrol with ISAF servicemembers discovered a weapons cache Wednesday.

    The cache contained four RPGs, an 81mm mortar and seven RPG fuel cells. An EOD team destroyed the cache.

    No Afghan civilians were harmed during these operations.

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    Date Taken: 03.05.2010
    Date Posted: 03.05.2010 06:10
    Story ID: 46183
    Location: KABUL, AF

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