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   >Taliban capture Afghan district   
   >Aljazeera.net   
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   >May 30, 2008   
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   >Taliban fighters have captured a remote district in central   
   >Afghanistan, taking prisoner the police and administration chiefs,   
   >officials and the Taliban have said.   
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   >The fighters attacked the district of Rashidan in the central province   
   >of Ghazni in a night attack, the provincial governor and a Taliban   
   >spokesman told the AFP news agency on Friday.   
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   >"Last night, Taliban attacked Rashidan district and it fell," Jan   
   >Mohammad Mujahed, a provincial police chief, said.   
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   >Mujahed said the plight of the seized officials was unknown.   
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   >'Under control'   
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   >Zabihullah Mujahed, a spokesman for the Taliban, confirmed the   
   >fighters were in control and said the district chief, acting police   
   >chief and eight policemen had been taken prisoner.   
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   >"They are alive and we have captured them. The district is totally   
   >under our control," he said.   
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   >Rashidan is a small district about 120km southwest of Kabul.   
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   >Teresa Bo, reporting for Al Jazeera in Afghanistan, said Ghazni -   
   >located along a major highway from Kabul, the capital, to the south -   
   >is one of the most complicated areas where fighting between Afghan, US   
   >and Taliban forces takes place almost everyday.   
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   >She said the Taliban hold power in strategic locations, adding: "Some   
   >of the police officers working here say they are afraid they will be   
   >the next target.   
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   >"Security is one of the major concerns for every one in the area; the   
   >soldiers know they can be attacked any minute."   
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   >Vicious circle   
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   >Bo said a vicious cricle of violence continues as the Taliban fight   
   >for the control of the country and the US-led coaliton struggles   
   >between re-construction and war.   
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   >The Taliban, in government between 1996 and 2001, last year overran   
   >several districts in remote parts of Afghanistan, but in most cases   
   >were ejected by government troops and soldiers attached to Nato's   
   >International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) and a separate US-led   
   >military coalition are fighting Taliban militants.   
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   >Taliban officials say they control a handful of districts, mostly in   
   >the south of the country.   
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   >Nato military force officials said in December that the Taliban held   
   >not more than five districts.   
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