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Weapons, Documents and One Man Seized by U.S. Troops Near Afghan Border
Thursday, July 25, 2002
(4:53 AM ET)
By Regan Morris
Associated Press Writer

BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- AP
U.S. forces on a sweep in southeastern Afghanistan detained one man and found documents in his vehicle with potential intelligence value, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday.

The sweep that began this week is the latest military operation in southeast Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, where remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaida are suspected to be sheltering in the mountains and where rivalry between warlords threatens Afghanistan's security.

Col. Roger King, a spokesman at the main U.S. base at Bagram, did not give details of why the documents seized Wednesday were suspected of having intelligence value. The seizure was made when U.S. forces detained a man at a roadblock.

He also said that the large weapons cache found in a cave on Wednesday will be evaluated and that if the weapons are found to be usable they may be given over to Afghanistan's fledgling national army.
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