(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-10-02 14:33

Militants often justify their attacks and executions as a response to US meddling in Afghan affairs.

Taliban insurgents in Ghazni province, meanwhile, ambushed a police convoy on Sunday, killing eight officers, said Abdul Khaliq Nikmal, spokesman for the provincial governor.

He said Afghan authorities have sent police reinforcements to the area and are meeting with US military officials to plan a counterattack.

The most-wanted program will see 200 billboards and 300,000 posters printed, to be put up by Afghan soldiers and police in areas where the military suspects the insurgents are operating. Some on the list are also believed to spend time in neighboring Pakistan.

The US says it has killed around 50 mostly midlevel insurgent leaders in the past year.

The highest-ranking leader killed this year was Mullah Dadullah, a one-legged militant who orchestrated a rash of Taliban suicide attacks and beheadings. He died of gunshot wounds in a US-led coalition operation in Helmand in May.

"Those mid- and high-level leaders are coordinating the action across Afghanistan. By taking them out there's at least a temporary disruption" in militant operations, Belcher said.

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