The Associated Press
09/19/2002
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - U.S. soldiers accompanied by local Afghan forces have arrested a warlord in southern Afghanistan, witnesses said Thursday.

Haji Nasro, a militia commander well-known throughout the region whose reputation was built resisting the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, was arrested Tuesday night at his home about 50 miles southwest of Kandahar.

It was unclear how many soldiers participated in the operation, but witnesses said four vehicles belonging to the U.S. military and two belonging to Afghan forces pulled up at Nasro's home and surrounded it before making the arrest.

It was not clear where Nasro was taken, and the reason for the arrest was not immediately known.

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