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2021-01-30 Afghanistan
Lashkar-e-Islam leader killed in an IED explosion
[KhaamaPress] Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
, head of Pakistain’s Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It was headed by a former bus driver and eventually folded into the TTP...
was killed in an IED explosion on Thursday in Nangarhar

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The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province.

Zia ul Haq
...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988...
Amarkhel, Nangarhar Governor tweeted, that Mangal was killed in a kaboom along with his two affiliated members.

Amarkhel added, that the group’s leader was killed in the Bandar Dara area of Achin district.

According to Nangarhar Governor, Bagh was involved in various "terrorist activities", his group was reported to have been part of Tehrik-e-Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
Pakistain founded in the Khyber district of Pakistain.

Reports indicate the US had offered up to $3 million for any information that could lead to his detention.

ATN news quoted US statement that "His group earns revenue from drug trafficking, smuggling, kidnapping, raids on NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
convoys, and taxes on transit trade between Pakistain and Afghanistan,"

The Lashkar-e-Islam was led by Bagh since 2006.
Mangal Bagh, also known as Mangal Bagh Afridi...

This is the third time that the news of death of the militant commander surfaces on media.

Afghan security agencies also confirmed the death of Mangal Bagh and said that the “reclusive militant commander” was killed while trying to plant a roadside bomb.

“When I visited Mangal Bagh camp several years ago, I saw people who were smoking hashish while they were encouraging others for prayers,” said Shamim Shahid, a journalist in eastern Afghanistan.

“There were speculations that Pakistan’s intelligence agencies were supporting Lashkar-e-Islam. Activities of this group were showing the same,” added Shahid.

Security sources have said that Mangal had close ties with Pakistan’s intelligence agencies. He was initially seen in Achin district of Nangarhar in 2014 where he was involved in militant activities, security agencies said.

According to Afghan security sources, Mangal was also cooperating with Daesh in the area.

In the past, the Afghan and Pakistani intelligence agencies two times reported about the death of Mangal Bagh.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-01-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top
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#1 That calls for a drink!
Posted by Clem 2021-01-30 00:07||   2021-01-30 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 This is an especially nice one, Clem. A round of the good champagne is on me — the good crystal glasses are lined up over there in the sideboard, so y’all please help yourselves. :-)
Posted by trailing wife 2021-01-30 00:18||   2021-01-30 00:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Where can I get me one of those hats?
Posted by jpal 2021-01-30 08:36||   2021-01-30 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Afghan Chitrali's (better known to GI's as 'pancake hats') are for sale at Amazon.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-30 08:42||   2021-01-30 08:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Also called pakol hats. Etsy has them, too.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-01-30 16:11||   2021-01-30 16:11|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Seasonal pies only, or can we custom order?
Posted by Frank G 2021-01-30 17:00||   2021-01-30 17:00|| Front Page Top

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