The Australian Defense Department said here on Sunday that the Australian special forces have caught a Taliban leader behind a host of bomb attacks in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province.
The Defense Department said in a statement that the Australian troops last week captured Mullah Bari Ghul, whom coalition forces believe was a key figure behind extremist operations in the province.
Defense described Bari Ghul as a key figure in providing equipment, money and foreign fighters to extremist operations in Oruzgan province and in involving in coordinating the actions of individual insurgent cells.
Defense spokesman Brigadier Brian Dawson said Bari Ghul carried out the role of a "shadow governor", responsible for authorizing bomb attacks across the province.
"Extremist cells in Afghanistan operate in small isolated groups and only a few key individuals have any sense of the overall provincial insurgency plan," Brigadier Dawson said.
He suggested that Bari Ghul could be ultimately responsible fort he roadside blasts which killed Signaller Sean McCarthy last month and Trooper David Pearce last October.
"Mullah Bari Ghul was directly responsible for the importation of component, the provision of specialists in the construction of IEDs and authorizing their emplacement across the province," Brigadier Dawson said.
Source:Xinhua
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