Posted on 02/16/2009 11:27:02 AM PST by NormsRevenge
KABUL – A coalition airstrike has killed a powerful Taliban commander who broke a promise to renounce violence after village elders persuaded President Hamid Karzai to free him from prison, officials said Monday.
The Sunday night attack destroyed a building housing Ghulam Dastagir and eight other militants in the village of Darya-ye-Morghab, near the Turkmenistan border, the U.S. military said in a statement.
Dastagir was responsible for a surge in violence in the province in recent months, including a November attack on an Afghan army convoy that killed 13 soldiers, the statement said.
"He was like the shadow governor of Badghis," said Gen. Mohammad Ayub Nizyar, the former police chief of the province.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Obama is going to be pissed!
A US Predator drone at a forward operating base near Kandahar in Afghanistan in January. A suspected US missile strike destroyed an Afghan Taliban camp, killing 26 people in the Pakistani tribal area of Kurram, security officials said. (AFP/File/Joel Saget)
You can bet that Opossum is briefed prior to drone attacks of such high-profile targets.
Opossum gave tacit, if not direct, approval to “take out the garbage”.
Going good over there.
Soldier Bojan Salamija speaks with son during a farewell ceremony in Ljubljana's military barracks February 16, 2009. 339 members of NATO KFOR Joint Enterprise for Kosovo and 66 members of OKO ISAF for Afghanistan will start their duties at the end of February. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic(SLOVENIA)
A member of the NATO KFOR Joint Enterprise for Kosovo force holds his dog during a farewell ceremony in Ljubljana's military barracks February 16, 2009. 339 members of NATO KFOR Joint Enterprise for Kosovo and 66 members of OKO ISAF for Afghanistan will start their duties at the end of February. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic(SLOVENIA)
"So, Mr. President, you authorize the strike?"
"Uhhhh. Yeah. Yeah, I guess I have to. Uhhhhhhh, has anyone seen my blackberry? I've got to ... uhh ... send a message to ... to a friend. I just hope he's on-line right now, because if he isn't ..."
“Dastagir?”
Oh,,, no,,,,That’s my middle name! Wonder if we’re related?
“....I’ve got to get back to being the Great Economic Emancipator for the American citizens”
One virgin for each bloody scrap of him ... greatness.
Smoke ‘em, if you can find ‘em.
(And I hope we find them frequently)
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