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Interior Ministry Rejects Reports of Surrounding Mullah Zaeef’s House
The Interior Ministry (MoI) rejected the reports in which said that the security forces surrounded the house of Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, a former official of the Taliban on Sunday, insisting that an operation was carried out to arrest a wanted criminal whose house is located near Zaeef’s residence.
Nasrat Rahimi, spokesman of the Interior Ministry said that the operation was launched on Sunday night in Kabul’s Bagrami district to arrest Mullah Tooti who is a land usurper.
The official added that Mullah Tooti has been arrested with a vehicle and eight weapons.
Earlier, close figures to Mullah Zaeef told Ariana News that the security forces surrounded Zaeef’s house.
Zaeef was Taliban’s ambassador to Pakistan before the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
He was detained in Pakistan in the fall of 2001 and held until 2005 in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. The United Nations removed Zaeef from its list of terrorists in July 2010.
Zaeef was released from Guantanamo in the summer of 2005.