June 9: ISAF Patrol Discovers 900 kg of Marijuana in Helmand Province
 ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan  2010-06-CA-027  For Immediate Release

KABUL, Afghanistan (June 9)
 A Taliban improvised explosive device (IED) commander and several other suspected insurgents were captured by an Afghan-international security force in Kandahar Province last night.
 The Taliban commander was responsible for bringing together IED experts to construct the devices, and was also a member of a Taliban assassination cell in Kandahar City. He and the other suspects were captured in a compound in a rural area of Arghandab district after intelligence information verified militant activity.
 There were no shots fired and no one was harmed during the above operations.
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