Posted on 12/06/2009 12:42:14 AM PST by Cindy
Two Taliban ‘commanders’ among 20 killed
SNIPPET: "MINGORA/KOHAT: Two Taliban ‘commanders’ were among 20 militants killed in clashes and air strikes in Swat and Orakzai Agency on Thursday.
In Swat, 13 insurgents were killed in clashes with security forces on Thursday.
According to Swat media centre, security personnel came under fire when they raided a Taliban hideout in Sigram area of Koza Bandai. During an exchange of fire, 10 militants and one soldier were killed.
Detained militant commander Mohammad Naseem alias Abu Faraj was with the troops and he was also killed in the clash. Abu Faraj, a close aide of Maulana Fazlullah, was captured by security forces in September.
The terrorists killed in the clash included Luqman, Abdul Azim, Zahid, Nawab Ali, Abdul Samad, Amir Baz Khan, Saeedullah, Shafeeq Ahmed, Ali Hussain, and Shah Hussain. Their bodies were handed over to local police.
Another Taliban ‘commander’ Alamgir, and his father were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Bar Thana area of Matta tehsil.
Bodies of two militants, Mian Gul and Zakir, were found in Peochar and Khwazakhela, respectively.
In Dherai, security forces blew up houses of three terrorists.
Security personnel also arrested 180 suspects in different areas of Swat during house-to-house searches soon after the death of ANP MPA Shamsher Ali Khan in a suicide attack in his hujra in Dherai area, the hometown of Maulana Fazlullah.
In Orakzai, seven terrorists were killed and their five hideouts and camps of insurgents were destroyed by helicopter gunships in lower Orakzai agency on Thursday.
The helicopters pounded the hideouts of TTP terrorists in Feroze Khel, Dara Garhi and Mirbak areas where members of the Tariq Afridi group of Taliban are said to be based.
Afridi is the TTP chief of Khyber Agency and Darra Adam Khel. The death toll may rise because, according to sources, the house of local TTP chief, Akhunzada Aslam Farooqui, and an ammunition depot in Feroze Khel area were razed to ground."
SNIPPET: "Police in Kohat, meanwhile, arrested 17 suspects, two foreigners among them, in a search operation on Thursday."
Read More: http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/04-eleven-militants-killed-in-swat-qs-03
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2009/12/captured_taliban_commander_kil.php
“Captured Taliban commander killed in combat in Swat”
By BILL ROGGIODecember 5, 2009 12:14 PM
SNIPPET: “Dawn reports on the death of a dangerous Taliban commander who was captured in Swat on Sept. 22 after being “seriously wounded.” According to the military, Abu Faraj, a deputy to Mullah Fazlullah and a commander notorious for training and plotting suicide attacks, was killed during a clash in Swat while accompanying troops:
In Swat, 13 insurgents were killed in clashes with security forces on Thursday.
According to Swat media centre, security personnel came under fire when they raided a Taliban hideout in Sigram area of Koza Bandai. During an exchange of fire, 10 militants and one soldier were killed.
Detained militant commander Mohammad Naseem alias Abu Faraj was with the troops and he was also killed in the clash. Abu Faraj, a close aide of Maulana Fazlullah, was captured by security forces in September.”
Shame they had to die before Obammy invited them to the White House.
“two foreigners among them”
ping.
We're always killing 'commanders' and 'mullahs' and 'key figures', and, yet, our Dear Leader wants us to 'Run away! Run away!'
Looking for a way out of a fight is no way to win it.
I understand.
“Two Taliban ‘commanders’ were among 20 militants killed in clashes and air strikes in Swat and Orakzai Agency on Thursday.”
Santa came early!
Just what is a Taliban Commander? What’s their tranining? If it’s the jungle gym video with Toyota pick-ups you gotta wonder.
These idiots are self pro-claimed at best and the top folks are always Commanders... what are the other ranks.. minions?
Nah, not minions, just *believers*.
Thanks.
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