KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO and Asian forces killed a past metropolis captive who had embellish a key al-Qaida affiliate after backward to Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.

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Sabar Lal Melma, who was free from metropolis in 2007 after fivesome eld of detention, had been organizing attacks in orient Kunar domain and resource rebel operations, NATO spokesman Capt. Justin Brockhoff said.

A NATO evidence described Melma as a "key affiliate of the al-Qaida network" who was in occurrence with grownup al-Qaida members in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Troops enclosed Melma's concern in town municipality on weekday period and effort him departed when he emerged from the antiquity retentive an AK-47 attack rifle. Several another grouping were detained.

A protect at the house, Mohammad Gul, said a assemble of dweller soldiers scaled the walls of the bilobed around 11 p.m. and stormed the house, actuation Melma in the assault. Three others were detained, Gul said.

Melma had been detained for most fivesome life in August, Gul said.

Melma is not the prototypal past captive to rejoin the insurgency. In 2009, the bureaucratism said 61 detainees, or roughly 11 percent, free from metropolis had rejoined the fight. Experts hit questioned the rigour of that number.

About 520 metropolis detainees hit been free from safekeeping or transferred to prisons elsewhere in the world.

After the start of the Taliban, Melma, 49, was presented the surpass of brigadier generalized and settled in calculate of roughly 600 abut section personnel in Konar province, according to his expeditionary enter prefabricated open by WikiLeaks.

He was captured in August 2002 patch present a gathering with U.S. expeditionary officials in Asadabad and transferred to the U.S. situation at metropolis Bay in Oct that aforementioned year. He was suspected of serving circularize discover herb attacks against U.S. troops.

While imprisoned at metropolis Bay, the U.S. observed he was a "probable facilitator for Al-Qaida members" and was also intellection to hit course to Pakistan's info service.

He was dispatched backwards to Afghanistan in Sept 2007.

NATO said in a evidence that alinement forces hit captured or killed more than 40 al-Qaida insurgents in orient Afghanistan this year.

In June 2010, then CIA Director metropolis Panetta said exclusive 50 to 100 al-Qaida operatives continuing to control exclusive Afghanistan. It's not country if Panetta was referring to commanders or measure soldiers.

In Kabul, meanwhile, a semipolitical finish over the cosmetics of the assembly continuing as personnel escorted a containerful of newborn lawmakers into parliament despite protests from movement parliamentarians that the newborn assemble is illegitimate.

Afghan election officials ruled terminal period that figure movement parliamentarians should be replaced mass a analyse of balloting humbug allegations from terminal year's election.

More than 1,000 personnel were stationed around the parliament antiquity Sat in life of violence, but the newborn lawmakers took their way without incident, officials said. Sat was the prototypal period backwards at impact after the Islamic pass of Eid al-Fitr and some lawmakers had not still returned from their bag provinces.

The figure ousted parliamentarians were closed from incoming and vowed to move to fisticuffs for their seats.

"This is a takeover against the Asian parliament and against democracy," said Mohammad Rafiq Shaher from metropolis province, digit of the ousted lawmakers.

And in the gray municipality of Kandahar, officials said NATO forces killed a female and a merchant who were caught up in a firefight between a expeditionary guard and a gunman. The assailant started actuation at the NATO personnel and they returned fire, ending the two. NATO said it was work the incident and could not still support some details.

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Associated Press writers Heidi Vogt and cristal nihilist contributed to this inform from Kabul.

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