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2007-01-26 Afghanistan

Taliban leader believed killed in Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-01-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Please lord let it be Mullah Omar...

Posted by Chenter Unimp7361 2007-01-26 05:22|| 2007-01-26 05:22|| Front Page Top

#2 The Royal Flying Corps rides again? Hurrah and Huzzar!

Posted by Howard UK 2007-01-26 05:36|| 2007-01-26 05:36|| Front Page Top

#3 couldn't have been Omar - this was in Afghanistan

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-26 07:54|| 2007-01-26 07:54|| Front Page Top

#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.">Mitch H. 2007-01-26 08:16|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2007-01-26 08:16|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-01-26 10:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-01-26 10:48|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-01-26 12:38|| Front Page Top

#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">Steve 2007-01-26 13:34|| 2007-01-26 13:34|| Front Page Top

#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">Glenmore 2007-01-26 13:47|| 2007-01-26 13:47|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-01-26 17:18|| Front Page Top

#11 I hope he died slow

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-26 19:00|| 2007-01-26 19:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Well. atn't that a bitch. So much for karma...

Posted by Dali Lama 2007-01-26 20:57|| 2007-01-26 20:57|| Front Page Top

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