Posted on 02/04/2007 12:24:25 AM PST by HAL9000
“Important” a leader taliban killed in a targeted Musa Qala raid
KANDAHAR (Afghanistan) - “important” ordering taliban “directly responsible” for the catch Friday of Musa Qala, chief town of district in the south of Afghanistan, was killed Sunday morning by a targeted air raid, affirmed the international force of NATO.
“This key figure of the talibans was known to have ordered the insurrectionists in the district of Musa Qala. It was directly responsible for the recent attacks conducted by the insurrectionists in the village for Musa Qala”, declared the spokesman with Kandahar (southern) of the international Force of assistance to the safety (Isaf) of NATO, Dave Marsh, quoted in an official statement.
The man, who was not identified, was killed whereas it was on board a vehicle “in an area isolated from the village of Musa Qala”, added commmuniqué, ensuring that no civil was touched by striking.
Musa Qala, chief town of the district of the same name in the province of Helmand (southern), has been for Friday under the control of an unspecified number talibans.
The council of old, which directed the district since the concluding of an agreement discussed at the end of September with the provincial governor and the British troops, was dismantled, and organizes it, only force ensuring the safety within the framework of this agreement, was disarmed, according to the local authorities.
The Afghan authorities supported by Isaf try to drive out the talibans of this borough by avoiding the “collateral damage”, declared Sunday in AFP the spokesman of the ministry for the Interior, Zemarai Bashary, specifying that leaflets were to be released Sunday on Musa Qala to order to the talibans to leave the zone under penalty of “being confronted with a firm action”.
Hundreds of families have fled the zone for Friday by fear of strike possible of Isaf. The district of Musa Qala extends on approximately 120 km from length and 20 km broad in north from the province from Helmand, one of conflict of the country.
The British were to start to reinforce this weekend their quota based in this province. Eight hundred additional soldiers must on the whole be dispatched in the south where Great Britain will have by the end of the summer 5.800 men.
Some 11.000 of the 33.000 soldiers of Isaf are based in the south of the country, traditional bastion of the talibans to the capacity
The province of Helmand, being next to that of Kandahar, and bordering on Pakistan, is in addition the principal producing area of opium. Afghanistan is the first world producer of opium which, according to experts', is in particular used to finance the insurrection.
Afghanistan knew in 2006, with some 4.000 died, its most fatal year since the fall of the mode of the talibans, with the capacity from September 1996 to November 2001. Some 33.000 soldiers of Isaf and 11.000 of the coalition directed by the Americans are positioned in Afghanistan.
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I hope so too - but it probably wasn't Mullah Omar.
Another one bites the dust.......
(Say hello to Satan and his 72 flaming swine for me.......)
Great News
He was important enough to hit him away from the population while he was on the move in a car.....this feels like the Mullah Osammi hit.
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Only 90 minutes before the handover ceremony on Sunday, a NATO airstrike killed a Taliban leader riding in a car near Musa Qala, spokesman Col. Tom Collins said.
Collins said the Taliban leader was killed within that 3-mile zone with the approval of the Afghan government.
Very interesting...
I wonder if he was coming or going.
If he was going, I hope we have some drones watching the other rats until they get to their holes.
If he was coming I hope we have plans to grease whoever he was going to meet.
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If I have the right guy....he is a commander for Hekmatyar.
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