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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/04/_commander_ismail_im.php
“Bara bin Malek Front Commander killed in Pakistani shootout”
By MATT DUPEEApril 17, 2008 12:43 PM
PHOTO CAPTION: “Commander Ismail. Image obtained by The Long War Journal from CJTF-82.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A senior leader of a Taliban splinter group known as the Bara bin Malek Front, one of the most dangerous insurgent groups operating in northeastern Afghanistan, was killed during a blazing shootout with Pakistani police in the North Western Frontier Province earlier this week. Security forces opened fire on Mullah Ahmad Shah, better known as his nom de guerre Commander Ismail, after he failed to stop at a police check point near the Afghan border. Ismail was attempting to smuggle a kidnapped Afghan day laborer back to an insurgent hideout on the Afghan side of the border, according to Pakistani security officials who spoke with CBS. Taliban spokesman Zabibullah Mujahid also confirmed the killing of a top Taliban commander in the area according to the same report.”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/04/20080417-4.html
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49612
“Bush, U.K. Prime Minister Talk Tough on Terrorism”
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2008