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Afghanistan
Taliban leader believed killed in Afghanistan
2007-01-26
The NATO-led force in Afghanistan has said it destroyed a rebel compound in an airstrike on Thursday that it believed killed a senior Taliban leader and his deputies.
The strike was in the Musa Qala area and was the latest in a series of operations there involving airstrikes and arrests of “senior Taliban commanders.”
The precision strike was against a “known insurgent command post” in Helmand, the 37-nation International Security Assistance Force said.

Most of 4,500 British troops in Afghanistan are in Helmand, but the statement did not say which country was involved in the operation. “The precision-guided munitions impacted on target, completely destroying the compound but causing no damage to the surrounding area. A senior Taliban leader and his deputies are believed to have been killed in this strike,” ISAF said in a statement. The strike was in the Musa Qala area and was the latest in a series of operations there involving airstrikes and arrests of “senior Taliban commanders”, the statement said.
Posted by:Fred

#12  Well. atn't that a bitch. So much for karma...
Posted by: Dali Lama   2007-01-26 20:57  

#11  I hope he died slow
Posted by: Frank G   2007-01-26 19:00  

#10  So the Buddha blaster had defected from the Talibanners to the Karzai government at some point, and got whacked by his former pals?

Damn, now that's serious scum. I don't care which side killed him.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-01-26 17:18  

#9  "assailant gunned down an Afghan lawmaker"

So the Buddha blaster had defected from the Talibanners to the Karzai government at some point, and got whacked by his former pals?
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-01-26 13:47  

#8  Dali Lama, it was a separate operation from the airstrike:

Separately, an assailant gunned down an Afghan lawmaker who, under the former Taliban regime, oversaw the destruction of two Buddha statues carved into a cliff. Maulavi Mohammed Islam Mohammadi, who was the Taliban's governor of Bamiyan province when the fifth-century Buddha statues were blown up with dynamite and artillery in March 2001, was killed on his way to Friday prayers in Kabul, said Zulmai Khan, Kabul's deputy police chief.
Posted by: Steve   2007-01-26 13:34  

#7  Mitch is right. Don't bother me until they get Omar, or at least poke his other eye out.
Posted by: plainslow   2007-01-26 12:38  

#6  It appears that one of the ones killed was responsible for blowing up the statues in 2001 -- how's that for Karma...
Posted by: Dali Lama   2007-01-26 10:48  

#5  the 37-nation International Security Assistance Force said.

Even the Paki-Waki press mentions that 37 nations are involved here, but not our home press? Some unilateral cowboy that Bush is, huh?
Posted by: BA   2007-01-26 10:43  

#4  Everytime a semiliterate backholler Pashtun file closer gets whacked, some yutz reports it as the death of a "senior Taliban leader". After the Hek headfake I got tired of this crap.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2007-01-26 08:16  

#3  couldn't have been Omar - this was in Afghanistan
Posted by: Frank G   2007-01-26 07:54  

#2  The Royal Flying Corps rides again? Hurrah and Huzzar!
Posted by: Howard UK   2007-01-26 05:36  

#1  Please lord let it be Mullah Omar...
Posted by: Chenter Unimp7361   2007-01-26 05:22  

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