KABUL,
Afghanistan – Afghan Provincial Response Company Ghazni, supported by
coalition security forces, seized 6,800 kilograms (15,000 pounds) of
potassium chloride during an operation in Nawah district,
Ghazni
province, yesterday.
Potassium chloride is used by insurgents as a principle component of the
home-made explosives used in improvised explosive devices.
During the operation, the APRC-G also discovered four boxes of
IED-making and packaging materials.
The combined force destroyed the chemicals in place, and recovered the IED components for further examination.
No civilians were harmed during the operation.
In other International Security Assistance Force news throughout Afghanistan:
South
An Afghan and coalition security force conducted an operation to detain a
Taliban leader in
Arghandab district,
Kandahar province, today. The
leader is responsible for conducting attacks against Afghan and
coalition forces throughout area. The security force detained three
suspected insurgents during the operation.
East
An Afghan and coalition security force conducted an operation, in
Watahpur district,
Kunar province, yesterday. The target of the
operation was Khatab Shafiq, a
Lashkar-e-Taiba leader. Khatab Shafiq
was the LeT’s senior leader in Kunar province. He was responsible for
several attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, and provided money,
weapons and training to insurgents in the region. Khatab Shafiq also
established multiple insurgent training camps in eastern Afghanistan,
where insurgents learned how to use mortars, rockets and machine guns.
Most recently, he was involved with teaching insurgents how to build and
emplace improvised explosive devices. During the operation, the
security force positively identified Khatab Shafiq among an armed group
of insurgents. After determining there were no civilians in the area,
the security force engaged the insurgents with a precision airstrike
away from all civilian structures. After the strike, the Afghan and
coalition security force conducted a follow-on assessment and confirmed
Khatab Shafiq, along with multiple other insurgents, had been killed.
The assessment also confirmed the strike had not harmed any civilians or
damaged any civilian property. Following the initial airstrike, the
security force identified several more armed insurgents in the immediate
area and engaged them with a second precision airstrike. A follow-on
assessment confirmed the second precision airstrike had killed several
insurgents but had not harmed any civilians or damaged any civilian
property.
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