U.S. Kills Afghan Taliban Commander in Drone Strike Inside Pakistan

Real Clear Defense ^ | 28 Dec, 2017 | Bill Roggio

[MtnClimber]

The U.S. killed an Afghan Taliban leader in a drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal agency of Kurram today, according to reports from the region. The commander, Jamiuddin, was a “trusted man” within the Haqqani Network, a subgroup of the Afghan Taliban, who helped fighters move from Pakistan to Afghanistan.

An unmanned aerial vehicle, likely a Reaper operated by the CIA, fired two missiles at a vehicle as it stopped in the Mata Sanghar area of Kurram, sources told Reuters. A Pakistani official also said an unnamed “associate” was also killed in the attack.

A Haqqani Network leader told Reuters that Jamiuddin “was our trusted man” who “used to facilitate our fighters during their movement inside Afghanistan.”

The Haqqani Network is an integral part of the Afghan Taliban and is closely allied with both al Qaeda and Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate. The network’s leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, is also one of two deputy emirs of the Afghan Taliban.

Haqqani Network leadership has been targeted numerous times during the U.S. drone campaign in Pakistan, which began in 2004 but ramped up in 2008 under President George W. Bush. The U.S. has killed 13 senior Haqqani Commanders, according to data compiled by FDD’s Long War Journal. Among those killed were Badruddin Haqqani, Sirajuddin’s brother and a top deputy; Jan Baz Zadran, the group’s third in command; Mullah Sangeen Zadran, a senior military commander who was the Taliban’s shadow governor of Paktika; and Abdullah Haqqani, who coordinated and trained the group’s suicide bombers.

[grobdriver]

You can run - but you’ll just die tired.

[mad_as_he$$]

Thank goodness he wasn’t at a wedding in a baby milk factory!

[Big Red Badger]

Drones...
Say Hello to My Little Friends!

[adorno]

2,000,000,000 to go if you ask me...

You might have a point, but...

I was talking about how, when you kill one Taliban leader, another one "eagerly" takes his place, and on and on... and my guess is/was that there are probably some 10,000 (or more) ready to jump into the "leadership" role. Same with ISIS and Al-Qaeda. To the point that we would never have stopped the never-ending headline of "terrorist struck down by American drone (or fighter plane, as the situation demands)". IOW, what we're doing now is not going to stop the Taliban or ISIS or Al-Qaeda.

[Chode]

and the next number one is shakin like a dog sh!tting peach pits...

[mabarker1]

ROFLMAO!!!