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Three Taliban leaders surrender
KABUL, JAN. 8. Three former ministers in Afghanistan's vanquished Taliban regime have surrendered to their conquerors while the hunt for the supreme Taliban leader again focused on rugged southern mountains.
The three ministers and other senior Taliban officials were gradually surrendering, said a spokesman for Governor Gul Agha of Kandahar.
A senior official of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime has been detained and handed over to U.S. forces, an Afghan tribal commander said today. The head of the Taliban's information department and one of their senior spokesman, Abdul Hayee Motmain, was detained by tribal forces loyal to the new Afghan Government yesterday in the southern Kandahar region, the commander, Gud Fida Mohammad, said. ``We have handed him over to U.S. forces,'' Mr. Mohammad said in the Afghan town of Spin Boldak, on the border with Pakistan.
In another incident, one of the seven Arab Al-Qaeda fighters barricaded in a hospital ward in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar blew himself up today, a security official said.
His body was found outside the ward where he and several other wounded fighters, mostly Arabs who came to Afghanistan to fight for Al-Qaeda and with the Taliban, have been recovering since early December.
Meanwhile, U.S. aircraft dropped pamphlets over eastern Afghanistan warning people not to shelter members of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda and risk being bombed, the Afghan Islamic Press said.
- Reuters, AFP
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