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Taliban leader believed killed in Afghanistan
The NATO-led force in Afghanistan has said it destroyed a rebel compound in an airstrike on Thursday that it believed killed a senior Taliban leader and his deputies.
The strike was in the Musa Qala area and was the latest in a series of operations there involving airstrikes and arrests of “senior Taliban commanders.”
The precision strike was against a “known insurgent command post” in Helmand, the 37-nation International Security Assistance Force said.

Most of 4,500 British troops in Afghanistan are in Helmand, but the statement did not say which country was involved in the operation. “The precision-guided munitions impacted on target, completely destroying the compound but causing no damage to the surrounding area. A senior Taliban leader and his deputies are believed to have been killed in this strike,” ISAF said in a statement. The strike was in the Musa Qala area and was the latest in a series of operations there involving airstrikes and arrests of “senior Taliban commanders”, the statement said.
Posted by: Fred 2007-01-26
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