Angelus.....any idea who these two guys are..
The main targets of operations here are resistance leaders Jalaluddin Haqqani and Saifullah Mansoor and their followers, who are believed to number between 2,000 and 2,500, spread all over the Khost, Paktia, Paktika and Gardez areas.
Jalaluddin Haqqani was the Taliban commander at Gardez during Operation Anaconda. He was working with Abu Zubaydah to form a pro-Taliban faction within Pakistan to challenge General Musharraf when Zubaydah was captured. Mansoor is Haqqani's top aide and second-in-command.
Last year, Mullah Omar appointed Haqqani as the new Taliban military commander in the hopes that it would reinvigorate their campaign to reconquer Afghanistan.