Afghan Government reveals that nearly 200 Taliban fighters have been surrounded by Afghan and NATO forces in a village in the Chora district of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province.
Several Taliban leaders, including top leader Mullah Dadullah, are believed to be in the group, though the Taliban have denied Dadullah is in Uruzgan province. U.S. forces also reported that rebel leader Gul Haqparast was killed in an April 20 air attack in Afghanistan's Laghman province.
Dadullah is believed to be the Taliban's current military leader in southern Afghanistan. Dadullah lost the use of one leg when fighting with the Mujahideen against Soviet occupation in the 1980s. He was a member of the Taliban's 10-man leadership council before the US-led invasion in 2001.
He was reportedly also a close aide to Mullah Omar. In 1999-2000, he led the brutal suppression of a revolt by Afghan Hazaras in Bamyan province