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15 killed in US assassination drone strike in eastern Afghanistan
[Iran Press TV] Authorities in Afghanistan say more than a dozen people have bit the dust in a US liquidation drone strike in the country's eastern province of NangarharThe unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. Colonel Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal, a front man for the Nangarhar provincial police department, said on Thursday that the drone attack took place in the Achin district of the province, which is located 120 kilometers (74 miles) east of the Afghan capital, Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , the previous night. He added that 15 members of the Daesh [Islamic State] Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... bully boy group were killed in the aerial assault. On February 3, at least 18 people bit the dust when US-led foreign forces carried out a string of drone strikes in Afghanistan's southeastern province of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... A provincial security official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , identified the dear departed as members of the Taliban bully boy group, noting that they hailed from Pakistain's mountainous northwestern region of  Wazoo, and had sneaked into Afghanistan's through the area.The attack came only a day after US forces carried out a drone strike in the Achin district of the troubled eastern province of Nangarhar, killing three members of the Daesh [Islamic State] Takfiri bully boy group. On January 26, five people were also killed in a dronezap in the same Afghan province, which has seen a rise in the presence of Daesh [Islamic State] Lions of Islam over the past months. Posted by: Fred 2016-02-19 |
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