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US Special Forces have arrested 12 suspected Taliban fighters in a mountainous area of central Afghanistan's Oruzgan Province after the US-led coalition forces heavily bombed the area, local radio reported on Wednesday.
The gunmen were arrested in an operation in Bahrghan district of the province, where about 25 people armed with machine guns and rifles were found on Tuesday preparing to make attacks against US troops deployed near the area.
The operation, which began with air bombings by US B-2 bombers and Denmark jet fighters on Tuesday, was still going on in the area, Radio Liberty quoted US military spokesman Roger King as saying.
According to the spokesman, there was a possibility that those gunmen had links with Taliban or the anti-American Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who reportedly have joined hands with Taliban and the terrorist al-Qaeda network and announced a Jihad against foreign troops in Afghanistan recently.
(Xinhua News Agency February 13, 2003)
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