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Taliban Documents, Weapons Seized in U.S. Raid
Friday, August 23, 2002
(19:13 AEST)
ABC News Online

Mr. King also revealed that US forces on patrol in the neighbouring province of Zabul uncovered a Soviet-era tank and armoured personnel carrier in a cave which appeared to have been used in the last six months.

United States special forces have seized a huge pile of Taliban documents found along with a major weapons cache in the fundamentalist militia's former stronghold in southern Afghanistan, a military spokesman says.

Intelligence officials are now studying the "trailer-load" of papers discovered near Kandahar, Lieutenant Colonel Roger King told reporters.

"US special operations forces operating near Kandahar uncovered and began the destruction of a very large and unstable cache of weapons and ammunition," Mr King said.

"The cache consisted of 1,400 107 millimetre rockets, 200 mines, 15 recoilless rifles and assorted small arms and ammunition.
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Dan