Ex-Osama aide nabbed in Afghanistan
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KABUL: Nato said on Thursday it captured a senior al-Qaida facilitator and former Osama bin Laden associate in northern Afghanistan.
Nato said the facilitator was based in Pakistan and was a former associate of bin Laden, who was killed in a US raid in Pakistan on May 2. Nato said the man may have been with the al-Qaida leader in 2001.
Nato did not release the detainee's name and or other details except to say he was captured Wednesday during an operation in Nahri Shahi, in northern Balkh province.
Nato said the man is one of several senior al-Qaida and Taliban insurgents captured in the province since February. It said a total of 35 people associated with al-Qaida and the Taliban have been captured in Balkh during that period.
Also in the north, the German Army said that six of its soldiers were wounded in a bomb attack in the province of Baghlan.
A spokesman for the Bundeswehr Operations Command in Potsdam, Germany said the attack on the German soldiers took place Thursday morning about 22 miles (35 kilometers) south of the city of Kunduz.
AP | Jun 3, 2011, 06.52am IST
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KABUL: Nato said on Thursday it captured a senior al-Qaida facilitator and former Osama bin Laden associate in northern Afghanistan.
Nato said the facilitator was based in Pakistan and was a former associate of bin Laden, who was killed in a US raid in Pakistan on May 2. Nato said the man may have been with the al-Qaida leader in 2001.
Nato did not release the detainee's name and or other details except to say he was captured Wednesday during an operation in Nahri Shahi, in northern Balkh province.
Nato said the man is one of several senior al-Qaida and Taliban insurgents captured in the province since February. It said a total of 35 people associated with al-Qaida and the Taliban have been captured in Balkh during that period.
Also in the north, the German Army said that six of its soldiers were wounded in a bomb attack in the province of Baghlan.
A spokesman for the Bundeswehr Operations Command in Potsdam, Germany said the attack on the German soldiers took place Thursday morning about 22 miles (35 kilometers) south of the city of Kunduz.
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