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Afghanistan
Mullah Dadullah Mansoor Possibly Killed In US Airstrike
2007-08-03
The U.S.-led coalition said Friday it had launched an air strike on a meeting of top Taliban commanders in a militant stronghold in Afghanistan, and local officials said more than a dozen rebels and civilians had been killed.

The coalition issued a brief statement on the strike Thursday in a remote area of Baghran district in southern Helmand province, saying it targeted two Taliban commanders. It gave few other details and no word of casualties.

Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said the strikes killed three senior Taliban, including the commander for Helmand province, Mullah Rahim. About one dozen other militants were killed, he said.
Awaiting the severed head as confirmation ...
Purported Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi denied AzimiÂ’s claim that Mullah Rahim was killed in the air strike. An even higher-ranked leader, Dadullah Mansoor, commander of the Taliban for all of southern Afghanistan, was present at the meeting hit by the strike, but his fate was not known, Azimi said.
Shrapnel wound to the gut? Blast injury? May I go so far as to pray for sepsis?
Posted by:Gromogum Elmereter5708

#13  walla walla bing bang!
Posted by: Zenster   2007-08-03 20:25  

#12  Dadullah!
Posted by: OldSpook   2007-08-03 18:44  

#11  me mi mo mullah
Posted by: Waldemar Spurt1655   2007-08-03 18:07  

#10  ...fee-fi-fo-fullah...
Posted by: eLarson   2007-08-03 17:52  

#9  once it's declared official, i'll pass out the chocolate.

in the meantime, Skolaut Enterprises is making a killing in popcorn futures...
Posted by: Querent   2007-08-03 17:30  

#8  ANOTHER Mullah Dadullah?

Sheesh Taliban, come up with a better name - Thats 2 this war already, you cloning them?

Is Dadullah the Afghani equivalent of "my Other Brother Darryl"?



Posted by: OldSpook   2007-08-03 17:12  

#7  Did he bounce?
Posted by: Icerigger   2007-08-03 17:08  

#6  The violence inherent in the system, Howard.
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-08-03 16:09  

#5  This strike was on C4 national news in sleepy old Britain.
Posted by: Howard UK   2007-08-03 16:00  

#4  I ask you, what is this country coming too when we can't even hold a double hanging in peace?!
Friggin INFIDELS!!
Posted by: Not the Dead Mullah Dadullah   2007-08-03 15:40  

#3  Taliban militants were hanging two local people accused of spying for the government. Other villagers had come out to watch when the bombs fell, he said.

Sounds like the opening to "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
Posted by: Capsu78   2007-08-03 15:09  

#2  I remember the Riverside (CA) paper would often run headlines like:
Budget may be balanced.
Iraq may pull out of Kuwait.

Just about anything may happen.
Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds   2007-08-03 14:44  

#1  Or not.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2007-08-03 14:38  

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