Posted on 07/29/2007 4:56:16 PM PDT by Dog
ISAF says Qari Faiz Mohammad, a top Taliban commander with close links to supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, died in a fierce clash with ANA and ISAF troops last week. Details of the raid were not released but one ISAF soldier died in southern Afghanistan that same day.
There has been no official announcement of Qari Faiz Mohammad’s death from Taliban sources.
Qari Faiz Mohammad was one of Afghanistan’s ‘Most Wanted’ Taliban leaders. He acted as Chairman of the Taliban military council and allegedly financed many Taliban operations launched in Helmand province, according to the BBC.
The suspected death of Qari Faiz Mohammad follows last month's air strike that killed another ‘Most Wanted’ commander, Mullah Mahmood Baluch, an infamous weapons smuggler active in Helmand and Nimroz province's. The June, 9th air strike occurred shortly after Mahmood Baluch led a convoy of weapons and ammunition over the Pakistan-Helmand border.
Before that, top Taliban strategist Mullah Dadullah died during a Coalition air assault on his safe house in Helmand province. The death of Mullah Dadullah on May, 12 is the single greatest blow to the Taliban leadership since the movement was ousted from power in late 2001.
Helmand is easily the most unstable state in the country with heavy fighting and suicide attacks occurring on a near daily basis.
According to the BBC, listed the remaining ‘Most Wanted’ Taliban members include: Mullah Mohammad Omar, Mullah Berader, Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, Abdul Rahim, Naime Bareech and Dadullah Mansour.
Bush’s fault.
Actually this time of year they tend to scatter back to the hills and prepare for the next “Taliban Spring Offensive” next year..
The ONLY entities on the planet who is still paralyzed by fear of the Taliban — are the Afghan peasants and the Media.
Hope he was on the toilet reading playboy when it came his time.
Keep killing these mutants until they are all gone from this Earth.
Thanks for the good news, Dog!
We’ve killed enough top Taliban leaders to finally limit their ability to conduct coordinated regroupings into safe areas this Fall.
Thus, there is a very strong chance that we score some large-scale kills when they make a mistake or two this Winter.
Excellent news.
It seems that we at the same time the surge was beginning, there has been a need to quell a brash increase in Taliban activity. We can only hope Omar and a few HVTs begin to fall in the coming months or the Dems will prevail in declaring defeat in Iraq.
one by one, but two at once is so much more fun!
I hope your right. We have seen a lot of taliban leaders rolled up this year.
Yes, the “spring offensive that NPR was telling me last feb/march was going to THE one! The US could not withstand the overwhelming advantages that Omar and the boys had cooked up this year....NPR and the like have been saying this EVERY year since we went into Afghanistan. Yet I never hear the reports in Sept. about how.. once again... the taliban have their asses handed to them every time they dare to engage.
Nice graphic!
“...supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar”
The absolute Mother of all Jihadi nut cases
maybe these animals want to morn the loss..
BAGHDAD, July 30 (Reuters) - Iraq’s parliament adjourned for its summer recess on Monday, taking a break until September despite having failed to enact a series of laws demanded by Washington.
Parliamentary speaker Mahmoud Mashhadani said in a statement issued after Monday’s session that he had dismissed lawmakers until Sept. 4.
“Parliament has decided to break until early September,” Hussein Falluji of the mainly Sunni Accordance Front bloc in parliament told Reuters.
“We have already cut the holiday by one month. It is our constitutional right to take it.”
The recess means parliament will resume just before U.S. military commander General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker are due to report back to Congress on the success of this year’s “surge” in U.S. troops to Iraq.
A preliminary White House assessment earlier this month faulted Iraqi leaders for failing to enact laws aimed at curbing violence, including measures to distribute oil revenue, hold provincial elections and loosen restrictions on members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath party returning to public life.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GRA049304.htm
I found another press release I'm trying to figure out....it looks like someone else was taken out in another raid.
Roger that.
Fabulous news. With the recent clampdown in Afghanistan, the Taliban and Al Queda are under more pressure than before. The sucess of allied operations, IMHO, is closely tied to the ability to pursue these barbarians across the border into Pakistan.
Next we need to get Vice-Chairman of the Military Council,
then the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Assistant Vice-Chairmen,
then the Acting Chairman,
then...
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