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Taliban commander killed

KANDAHAR: Afghan security forces killed a senior Taliban commander along with two other fighters in a raid on a village home in southern Afghanistan, an official said on Sunday. Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar, reportedly a former inmate at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, died in a gunbattle on Saturday night in Pishi village in the southern province of Uruzgan, said Jan Mohammed Khan, Governor of Uruzgan. He 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 out of power in late 2001. He was held for eight months at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, but was subsequently released and returned to Afghanistan. — AP

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