Posted on 05/13/2007 5:12:55 AM PDT by DarthVader
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban's most prominent military commander, a one-legged fighter who orchestrated an ethnic massacre and a rash of beheadings, was killed in a U.S.-led military operation in southern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
Mullah Dadullah, a top lieutenant of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, was killed Saturday in the southern province of Helmand, said Said Ansari, the spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence service. NATO confirmed his death, calling it "a serious blow" to the insurgency.
Dadullah is one of the highest-ranking Taliban leaders killed since the fall of the hard-line regime following the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. His death represents a major victory for the Afghan government and the international coalition that has struggled to contain a Taliban-led insurgency wracking the south and east of the country.
"Mullah Dadullah was the backbone of the Taliban," said Asadullah Khalid, governor of the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. "He was a brutal and cruel commander who killed and beheaded Afghan civilians."
Khalid showed Dadullah's body to reporters at a news conference in the governor's compound. An Associated Press reporter said the body, lying on a bed and dressed in a traditional Afghan robe, had no left leg and three bullet wounds: one to the back of the head and two to the stomach.
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No doubt the Nancy woman is going to be complaining that this sends an erroneous signal to the Afghan people ~ she really wanted her friends in the Taliban to win.
Awwwwwwwww....bullet to the back of the head. Amnesty International will be disappointed.
I swear, you can't make this stuff up.
We need to target the money men in Saudi and elsewhere who provide the funding for these jokers, those who fund the radical madrassahs that train them, and who support the radical imams who exhort teenagers to become jihadis
“We need to target the money men in Saudi and elsewhere who provide the funding for these jokers, those who fund the radical madrassahs that train them, and who support the radical imams who exhort teenagers to become jihadis.”
They need a visit by Luca Brazia.
No, there needs to come a day when the President says "I'm gonna take care of all the family business". The Barzinis of Riyadh must be dealt with
Dadullah sleeps with the piggies...........
the flag will be at half staff over the DNC....
there will a moment of silence at the daily KOS...and a service at the Code Pink HQ...
May this turd burn in hell....
Hooray.
This is about the third time we’ve killed this sucker, isn’t it?
The Donks and the MSM are deeply saddened.
No this is a different one. Someone will come into his place and then we will kill him too.
Dadullah is roasting on a spit with an apple in his mouth.
OK folks, one last time...(all together, now)
Mullah, Mullah Da-dullah
Banana fana fo-Fullah
Fee fy mo Ullah
Mullah!
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