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| Ex-Guantánamo inmate who rejoined Taliban slain |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/04/2004 |
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A former inmate at the U.S. prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who returned to Afghanistan to rejoin the Taliban as a key commander, was killed along with two fellow fighters in a raid by Afghan security forces, two senior officials said last Sunday. The Taliban commander, Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar, died along with two comrades in a gunbattle last Saturday night in Oruzgan, a southern province, said Gov. Jan Mohammed Khan. He said authorities had received intelligence that Ghaffar was hiding in a village called Pishi and was planning an attack against the government. Security forces launched the raid after surrounding the house where the militants were hiding. No Afghan forces were reported hurt. The governor said Ghaffar had been a senior Taliban commander in northern Afghanistan and was arrested about two months after a U.S.-led coalition drove the militia from power in late 2001. He was held eight months at Guantánamo Bay before his release and return to Afghanistan. |
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