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NATO dismiss Taliban claims as baseless of shooting US drone
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... -led Resolute Support (RS) mission in Afghanistan dismissed the claims by the Taliban group as baseless for shooting down a US Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), drone. The mission in an online statement posted via its Twitter account said the drone crashed due to technical failure. "More false TB claims. An unarmed U.S. UAV that crashed Monday in Nangarhar The 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.. suffered engine failure.. It was not shot down," the Twitter post reads. Taliban posted a picture of a surveillance drone earlier on Tuesday and claimed that it was shot down by the group’s fighters. The latest claim by the Taliban comes as the group often claims responsibility for the attacks aimed at the Afghan officials, security forces, and the NATO-led mission. Posted by: Fred 2017-01-19 |
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