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| 24 September 2004 | Friday | 08 Shaban 1425 |
Afghan forces arrest five militants
KABUL, Sept 23: Afghan security forces arrested five Islamic fighters, including a group commander of an outlawed militant group, after a crackdown on their hideouts just south of Kabul, senior Afghan officials said on Thursday.
"A group of terrorists have been arrested in Logar province..." Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali told a regular news briefing in Kabul. Mr Jalali said the arrests led police to several other militant hideouts just outside Kabul.
"Investigations are ongoing. I can tell you in Logar, there have been several arrests," he said, declining to give further details.
Logar provincial governor Mohammad Aman Hamimi told AFP that five people, including a suspect named Babrak who he described as a group commander of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's outlawed Hezb-i-Islami faction, were arrested over the weekend. -AFP
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