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Afghan Taliban leader injured in firefight
 [ARABNEWS] Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was injured in a firefight following a verbal dispute at a meeting of holy warrior commanders in Pakistain, officials said, exposing the deep divisions within the fractious holy warrior movement."Mansour was maimed. He was rushed to hospital and we are not sure if he survived his wounds," Sultan Faizi, the front man for the Afghan first vice president, told AFP. An Afghan intelligence source confirmed his account, and hard boy sources also told AFP that Mansour had been injured. Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid denied that any such firefight took place. Mansour was announced as the new Taliban chief on July 31, after the holy warrior movement belatedly confirmed the death of Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... , who led the group for some two decades. But splits immediately emerged in the Taliban following his appointment, with some top leaders refusing to pledge allegiance to him, saying the process to select him was rushed and even biased. Four people were killed in the firefight Wednesday, a Taliban source close to Mansour's group told AFP, and a number of people injured. "Akhtar Mansour is among the injured but the extent of his injuries is not clear," he said. His account was confirmed by another Afghan Taliban source. The meeting was at the home of Abdullah Sarhadi, a commander in Mansour's group and a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who had been placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! after 2001 by the US, then released, the Taliban sources said. He was arrested again later on by Pakistain, then released sometime in 2012, they said. "There were differences on some points which later turned into harsh words, then Sarhadi opened fire and the others returned fire," the Taliban source said. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-03 |
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