Well done Australia! Mullah Bari Ghul captured.

Australian special forces in Afghanistan have captured a senior Taliban commander.

The Defence Department says that elite Australian troops in Uruzgan had last week taken in Mullah Bari Ghul - a man they believe is a central figure in extremist attacks in the restive province.

Defence chiefs said Bari Ghul organised money, equipment and foreign fighters for extremist operations in Uruzgan and acted as "shadow governor" authorising attacks across the region.

"Mullah Bari Ghul was directly responsible for the importation of componentry, the provision of specialists in the construction of IEDs [improvised explosive devices] and authorising their emplacement across the province," spokesman Brigadier Brian Dawson said.

"He was also ultimately responsible for the July 13 suicide bomber attack in the Deh Rawood bazaar that killed 21 Afghans and injured a further 12."

Brigadier Dawson said the capture of Bari Ghul, who was also involved in coordinating the actions of individual insurgency cells, would likely have an immediate impact on militant activity in the region.

"The loss of the one person who knew what was currently underway, what was planned for the future and had the contacts to gain further support is a significant blow to the Taliban extremists' command and control in the province," he said in a statement.

"Extremist cells in Afghanistan operate in small isolated groups and only a few key individuals have any sense of the overall provincial insurgency plan."

No details about the capture were revealed. Bari Ghul is being held in a Dutch detention facility in Tarin Kwot, Uruzgan.

**Well done you diggers.

Nothing to say if Mr Ghul was dressed up in womens garb and attempting to hide with the women & children, an activity common with "brave" islamic warriors when things start to go wrong.

No doubt he is now crying like a girl and asking for his mummy.

Such bad luck on his part to be captured by Australians, had he landed in the hands of UK forces some scumbag lawyer would have freed him in double quick time, given him a council house as well as compensation and some arsehole from Channel 4/BBC would be planning a film on his life.

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