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Afghanistan
Taliban decides to relocate heroin labs amid relentless airstrikes
2018-05-29
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group leadership has decided to relocate the drugs and heroin labs amid relentless Arclight airstrikes targeting the main financial streamline of the group.

The group has reportedly decided to relocate the labs to mountains and valleys amid fears that the airstrikes would result to civilian casualties.

The latest decision by the group to prevent civilian deaths follows the growing criticisms that the group faces due to civilian deaths as the majority of the civilian deaths are attributed to the operations of the group.

Taliban’s shadow governor for Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
Mullah Manan has reportedly ordered his secretary to act and relocate the labs from the towns and residential areas to mountains and valleys.

In a walkie-talkie conversation with his secretary shared on a Taliban WhatsApp group, the Taliban’s shadow governor of Helmand, Mullah Manan, said "due to one factory hundreds of the public are at risk from bombings and missiles" and called for facilities to shift to "mountains and valley sides" instead, according to The Guardian.

The Taliban group has so far not reacted regarding the report but the US commander in Afghanistan Gen. John Nicholson had earlier warned that the air campaign against the main financial resources of the group would continue.

Posted by:Fred

#4  Modern precision weapons and the cell-phone age have interesting side effects...
Posted by: magpie   2018-05-29 17:39  

#3  Relocate? Yes. Away from the peoples? Nah.
Posted by: Neville Speaking for Boskone6001   2018-05-29 16:30  

#2  But if they lose the shield of the populace, even more targetted missiles will rain down upon them. That’s why they set up in the middle of the population to begin with. A dilemma, that’s what it is — or perhaps a conundrum.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-05-29 09:47  

#1  
Pressure from the populace. Growing pressure, if the article is accurate. Some good news from that place.

Finally.
Posted by: Roger29 Palms   2018-05-29 09:06  

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