Afghan Forces Capture Top Taliban Officers In Chaotic Aftermath of the Fall of Kandahar
Chip Cummins Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
Updated Dec. 11, 2001 12:01 am ET
Afghan opposition forces have notified the U.S. in the past few days that they have captured several top Taliban officers, Pentagon officials said.
One senior official said the Pentagon believed that among those arrested are the head of the Taliban's army and one of the regime's top intelligence officers, although they weren't able to positively identify any of them. There was still some uncertainty about those reports, including whether the Taliban officers had been apprehended immediately after the chaotic fall of Kandahar...