Three Australians were seriously wounded in the attack by Mohammad Rozi. Source: News Limited
A WANTED Afghan soldier who wounded three Diggers in a 2011 unprovoked shooting has been tracked down and killed.
The Afghan Ministry of Defence said Mohammad Rozi was killed by Afghan commandoes on Wednesday morning in the north-eastern province of Takhar, about 400km from where he was last seen.
A provincial official said Rozi had travelled to Takhar at the request of his dying father who had asked to see his son for the last time.
Locals in the area reported a wild shoot-out early on Wednesday morning in which they said was the operation to detain Rozi.
It is the first time Afghan troops have successfully pursued an Afghan soldier responsible for attacks on Australian troops.
The hunt for Rozi came after he fired upon Australian and Afghan troops at a small patrol base about 30km from Australia's main base in the Uruzgan provincial capital of Tarin Kowt.
Three Australians were seriously wounded while two Afghan soldiers sustained minor injuries.
A well-prepared Rozi had packed a vehicle with weapons and supplies before fleeing after the sneak attack on the night of November 9, 2011. Until yesterday he had not been heard of since.
A member of Takhar's provincial council, Mujebur Rahman, said the operation on Wednesday morning was less than a kilometre from his house.
"We couldn't sleep because there were so many helicopters in the sky," he said.
"Then there was shooting and many grenades exploded."
Mr Rahman said neighbours of Rozi's father said the wanted soldier had returned recently to see his father because he was dying.
"His father was calling him and saying 'come and see me, I am very sick'," Mr Rahman said.
"From what I have been told he was with the Taliban in (neighbouring) Kunduz province and he came with a weapon and wouldn't surrender. He fought with the Afghan special forces and wounded three of them but then they used grenades and killed him. His face is completely destroyed and his father is in a coma."
In February last year, the Taliban posted a boastful 47-minute interview with Rozi in which he proudly spoke about shooting the Australians, falsely claiming he had killed 12 of them.
In the video, Rozi says; ''I had one mission on my mind - to kill foreigners and teach them a lesson. We are Muslims. We cannot accept foreigners.
"I prepared the grenade launcher and my gun with 200 bullets. Foreigners were sitting in a room. They were fire worshippers around a big fire. There were 12 of them. A soldier ran to me and asked me what I was doing. He suspected my motives. I told him that it was none of his business … I opened fire. When the bullets ran out it was time to use the rocket launcher.''
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