Posted on 08/03/2007 12:32:48 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - U.S.-led airstrikes hit a Taliban gathering in volatile southern Afghanistan and killed at least three senior figures of the militant group, government officials said Friday.
The ministry said its intelligence reports indicated three militant leaders, including Taliban commander for Helmand province Mullah Rahim, were among those killed Thursday. The Taliban commander for all of southern Afghanistan, Dadullah Mansoor, was at the scene but his fate was not immediately known, Azimi said.
A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, denied Rahim was killed.
The U.S.-led coalition would not confirm Azimi's account. But a coalition statement said it carried out a "precision airstrike against two notorious Taliban commanders conducting a leadership meeting in a remote area of the Baghran district."
"During a sizable meeting of senior Taliban commanders, coalition forces employed precision-guided munitions on their location after ensuring there were no innocent Afghans in the surrounding area," the statement said. The coalition gave few other details and no word of casualties.
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Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.
I wonder if it was a pilot or a Predator that launched the air strike. Either way, less Taliban makes us all safer.
Let’s hope that Dadullah is a Dead Mullah.......
ping
Better to kill them than arrest them. Nobody takes hostages to trade for a dead body.
Get those buggers.
I hate the Taliban, ooooooooopppppppps, should I ask O’Reily if i can hate tehm?
Hey! Wait a min! Not so fast! The Taliban have ramped up
their offensives in the summer season!! They have seized
remote outposts...........
........................for hrs at a time..............
..............................before retreating having
suffered disporportionately large casualties.
MV
Get those buggers.
I hate the Taliban, ooooooooopppppppps, should I ask O’Reily if i can hate them?
O’Really can go pound sand..............
Squashing the cockroaches.
GRRRRRRREAT news! Trickle down annihilation works!
That certainly was a soothing read.
But wait, maybe it was another wedding! (sarcasm on)
More likely a target rich environment!!!!!
Now if they will just target the FUNERAL of these dogs, we can make a bigger dent in their numbers.
That’s gotta leave a grease spot.
Good News!
Targeting funerals would have an exponential return. Think about it.
Yes. Take out 2/3rds of em every weekend.
Does anyone watch him anymore?
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