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Special Dispatch|3204 |September 1, 2010 Urdu-Pashtu Media Project/Jihad & Terrorism Threat Monitor
Taliban Official in Charge of IEDs in Dand District: 'The Islamic Emirate has Begun to Expand Its Use of IED Warfare … in All the Major Theaters of Operations' On August 30, a jihadist website released an interview of Qari Khairullah Muneeb, the Taliban's commander responsible for improvised explosives devices (IEDs) in the Dand district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province. The Dand district is situated to the south of Kandahar, the provincial capital. The interview, conducted by an interviewer for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban's shadow government), gives an insight into the Taliban's focus on IEDs as weapons of choice against the U.S. and NATO forces. In the interview, Qari Khairullah Muneeb notes the effectiveness of the IEDs against the foreign troops, stating: "recent military experiments in various parts of the country have shown that IEDs, when supplementing ground assault troop maneuvers, play an important role in defeating the enemy troops."   To read the full dispatch, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/report.htm?report=4572&param=UPP. To view this report, you must be a paying member of the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project (JTTM). For membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line. You can also subscribe to a year of the JTTM Weekly Digest for $200.00. The Digest includes a selection of material from the JTTM. To subscribe to the JTTM Weekly Digest, visit https://secure3.convio.net/memri/site/Donation2?df_id=1253&1253.donation=form. (Sign up today - subscription price is set to increase in September) Note to media and government: For the full report or a copy of the viedeo, send an email with "Taliban Official in Charge of IEDs in Dand District" in the subject line to media@memri.org.