Posted on 05/13/2007 1:10:24 PM PDT by neverdem
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 13 — The Taliban’s top operational commander, Mullah Dadullah, has been killed in southern Afghanistan, and his body was displayed by Afghan officials in this southern city today.
The commander was killed in a joint operation by Afghan security forces and American and NATO troops in Helmand Province, the governor of Kandahar, Asadullah Khaled, said. News agencies reported that the Taliban was killed in fighting in the Nahri Sarraj district, a strategic area of Helmand Province that the Afghan intelligence service reported Saturday had been cleared of Taliban after an operation this week. A statement released by NATO confirmed his death.
“Tell your honorable people, and journalists, to live in peace now — the people have now been rescued from the cruelty of this wild butcher,” Mr. Khaled said.
“This is a huge loss for the Taliban; it will certainly weak their activities” the governor said. He then led reporters s to see the body, laid on a metal hospital bed, covered in a pink sheet on the verandah of the governor’s palace.
Mullah Dadullah, an amputee, was recognizable in part from his missing left leg and thick black beard. He had been shot in the head and in the stomach, the governor said. His face and chest were bloodied. He wore traditional Afghan clothes and an ordinary shoe on his good leg.
He was one of the most-wanted Taliban leaders, close to the leader Mullah Muhammad Omar, and with links to Al Qaeda. Mullah Dadullah was considered one of the most important operational commanders, organizing groups of fighters and obtaining weapons supplies and money across much of the south and southeast of Afghanistan. In the last year he was known to be traveling in Pakistan’s tribal areas to coordinate the insurgency and recruit fighters.
Mullah Dadullah...
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That is a huge victory for us in the war on terror. God bless our brave troops.
Huge victory for our side.
A wealth of Intel is likely to follow.....
NICE SHOOTING BOYS!
monster is right. I hope he suffered before he checked out.
Mullah DEADullah!
Name has a ring to it. Maybe Santan can use it in a limerick or two.
Let’s see him in a surpringly elegant frame in the next Pentagon briefing like they did with one of the other masterminds a couple of months ago.
Thanks for the link.
Check out the other threads on Dadullah. There are already photos of his corpse wrapped in pink cloth. His corpse was exhibited at the Governours Palace.
But his sister, Sally, is still on the loose, along with their 3 cousins, Bippity, Boppity and Abu. No one is safe until they are eliminated too. Maybe Walt Disney can help us.
Mullah Dadullah, Sally Dadullah, Bippity, Boppity Abu.
“Tell your honorable people, and journalists, to live in peace now...”
I love the way he put that.
So now I say hey man Nice Shot!
I hope he was suitably shocked to find himself waking up in hell with all his heroes burning around him.
Including his airplane hijackers, car bombers, decapitators and all the others who thought they were bound for heaven. HA HA HA....burn in hell MFs.
This story was actually posted on cnn.com for a brief time this morning, doubtless by an intern who snuck this through after coming in early on Sunday morning. By midmorning, it had been replaced by one of the usual all-is-lost stories. The intern is probably now looking for work.
Not every day you get one named Mullah Dudullah!!!
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