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Three Taliban swapped for Italian journalist killed with Dadullah(hehe)
dailytimes.com.pk ^ | Thursday, May 17, 2007

Posted on 05/16/2007 4:51:11 PM PDT by Dog

KABUL: Three Taliban who had been released from prison in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist were killed alongside the insurgency’s top field commander over the weekend, the Afghan intelligence service said on Wednesday.

Mullah Dadullah, a militant who orchestrated a rash of Taliban suicide attacks and beheadings, died of gunshot wounds in a US-led operation over the weekend in the southern province of Helmand.

An official with Afghanistan’s intelligence service identified the three others as Mullah Shah Mansoor, Dadullah’s brother, Mullah Hamdullah and Commander Ghafar. They had been freed in March in a prisoner swap for the release of Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo.

US-led coalition forces, with assistance from NATO and Afghan forces, were able to track them to the village of Sarwan using “modern technology,” said the official, reading an intelligence service statement. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the agency’s policy.

A NATO spokeswoman said the coalition would not have been able to kill the Taliban’s top field commander without the help of Afghan civilians and security forces, whose intelligence helped track him down, but gave no details.

The Taliban has lost most of its top commanders over the last year and NATO’s International Security Assistance Force anticipates the Taliban’s operational coherence and morale will suffer as a result, spokeswoman Lt Col Maria Carl said.

Afghan national security forces “made this operation possible, and their efforts are largely responsible for the death of (Mullah Dadullah) - this is their success,” Carl told a news conference. Carl said NATO forces tracked Dadullah to southern Afghanistan. “Not long after Mullah Dadullah showed up in the southern part of Afghanistan, he was found and killed in an assault by mainly coalition forces, with ISAF and (Afghan) assets in support,” Carl said.

“This will likely be a serious disruption to the extremists’ efforts to terrorize the Afghan people. But we also know that it does not mean the end of the insurgency by any means,” Carl said.

Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman Gen Zahir Azimi said the Afghan people had a “great role in cooperating with the government” in the operation to kill Dadullah, but he declined to give any further details. He said the government was “keeping their intelligence information secret”.

Separately, a soldier with the US-led coalition died from his injuries after being attacked while returning from a medical assistance mission in southern Afghanistan, the force said on Wednesday. agencies


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: globaljihad; jihad; taleban; taliban
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We now know who the others were who were killed with him..
1 posted on 05/16/2007 4:51:16 PM PDT by Dog
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To: Cindy

ping.


2 posted on 05/16/2007 4:53:04 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Just say no to Brady bunch Republicans.)
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To: Dog
Justice can be sweet.
3 posted on 05/16/2007 4:53:32 PM PDT by Cornpone (Islam: The world's greatest, preventable and treatable psychosis. ©2006Cornpone)
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To: Dog

Suppose we tagged them........hmmmmm


4 posted on 05/16/2007 4:54:40 PM PDT by stboz
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To: Dog

Probably stuck a tracking device up their asses. LOL


5 posted on 05/16/2007 4:55:55 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Dog
Can anyone say the words:

"Subcutaneous radio beacon implant"

three times, real fast?

6 posted on 05/16/2007 4:56:05 PM PDT by Candor7
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To: Dog
US-led coalition forces, with assistance from NATO and Afghan forces, were able to track them to the village of Sarwan using “modern technology,”...

IOW, that wasn't a suppository, Akhmed.

7 posted on 05/16/2007 4:57:21 PM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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To: Dog

Does this mean the Italians have to return the journalist? It would only seem fair.


8 posted on 05/16/2007 4:57:25 PM PDT by keat (You know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop-dusting.)
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To: Dog

Nice to see their freedom was short lived, literally. Good news throughout the article, especially about the leadership. So too in Iraq are the brains being taken out save for those in Iran and Syria. Hopefully, plans are being laid...


9 posted on 05/16/2007 4:57:42 PM PDT by eureka! (The 'rats have made their choice in the WOT and honest history will not be kind to them...)
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To: eureka!
Someone once said...

Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done. ...

10 posted on 05/16/2007 5:00:07 PM PDT by Dog
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To: Dog

“modern technology” here probably equals a “Digital Angel GPS/RFID” type sub dermal implanted device into these animals, and NATO then released them into the wild to track their migration routes.

As a a side benefit it also got Prodi his journalist back, and got the NATO brass Prodi’s temporary good will.


11 posted on 05/16/2007 5:00:39 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: Dog
Image hosted by Photobucket.com now they're GOOD goathumpers...
12 posted on 05/16/2007 5:00:53 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: Candor7

Implanted in their cheeks as described by the American al Qaeada operative Timothy McVeigh.


13 posted on 05/16/2007 5:03:06 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Al Qaeda knows Iraq's strategic value, yet the Democrats work day and night for our defeat there.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Yo!


14 posted on 05/16/2007 5:04:25 PM PDT by Candor7
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To: Dog
The Taliban has lost most of its top commanders over the last year and NATO’s International Security Assistance Force anticipates the Taliban’s operational coherence and morale will suffer as a result, spokeswoman Lt Col Maria Carl said.

Yet hardly a peep out of the MSM regarding such enormous momentum that our side clearly has.

15 posted on 05/16/2007 5:11:01 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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To: Dog

bttt


16 posted on 05/16/2007 5:11:27 PM PDT by MattinNJ (Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson-I can't decide...but I'd vote for Rudy against Hillary)
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To: eureka!

Yep and they led us right to the hive.....


17 posted on 05/16/2007 5:18:59 PM PDT by Walkingfeather (u)
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To: Dog

Good idea...they must have knocked ‘em out and planted tracking devices in the Taliban prisoners before they were released. Works every time.

Ha ha


18 posted on 05/16/2007 5:21:39 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: doc maverick

Presuming they were tracked, I would not be surprised to hear that more than lat/lon coordinates were transmitted. Once you have a little transmitter in you, all kinds of other data could be included in the stream... for example, voice data.


19 posted on 05/16/2007 5:32:16 PM PDT by C210N (Bush SPIED, Terrorists DIED!)
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To: Candor7

Okay, I give up? I don’t get it. How is this “tagging” done? If someone can find him to tag him, can’t he simply be “tagged” with a bullet first? Are we talking undercover operatives or spies doing this tagging? I hope someone is about to “tag” Osama.


20 posted on 05/16/2007 5:39:14 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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