Posted on 06/24/2009 2:59:50 AM PDT by Cindy
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Have a great weekend, everybody!
Nothing like a Hallmark greeting card.
UPDATE:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/06/taliban_commanders_s.php
“Taliban commanders survive US airstrike at funeral”
By BILL ROGGIO
June 25, 2009 10:17 AM
SNIPPET: “The US came close to killing Baitullah Mehsud, one of his senior deputies, and an Afghan Taliban commander during Tuesday’s airstrike that targeted the leaders as they gathered for the funeral of an aide killed in a separate Predator strike earlier that day.
Baitullah, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban movement, narrowly escaped the attack, as he left the funeral just minutes before the airstrike, US intelligence officials involved in the hunt in Pakistan’s tribal areas told The Long War Journal.
“We think we almost had him,” one official said, referring to Baitullah. “It was close.”
Qari Hussain Mehsud and Mullah Sangeen Zadran also dodged the US air blitz, according to US intelligence officials and reports in the Pakistani press.
Qari Hussain is a senior Taliban commander and possible successor to Baitullah. He runs suicide training camps in South Waziristan and recruits young boys to serve as suicide bombers.
Sangeen is senior deputy to Siraj Haqqani and a field commander for the Haqqani Network in eastern Afghanistan. Sangeen has led pitched battles against US and Afghan forces in Paktika province in Afghanistan.
Baitullah, Qari Hussain, and Sangeen were in the town of Makeen to attend the funeral of Khwaz Ali Mehsud, a mid-level commander of the Taliban in South Waziristan. Khwaz Ali, who was close to Baitullah, had been killed in a Predator strike earlier that morning.”
Now that's the knid of respect they understand, we'll have to do it more often.
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