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89 insurgents killed in Afghan forces operations in past 24 hours
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least eighty nine bully boyz belonging to the various turban groups including the Taliban bully boyz group were killed during the counter-terrorism operations in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Thursday.A statement by MoD said the operations were conducted in the various parts of the country and as a result at least 47 bully boyz were also maimed and at least 8 others including local commanders of the Taliban group were locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! The statement further added that the operations were conducted with the support of the Afghan Air Force and the artillery units of the Afghan army. According to MoD, at least 37 of the Lions of Islam comprising the ISIS loyalists were killed in the vicinity of Achin district of 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.. , including the brother of the former top ISIS leader Hafiz Saeed  ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... At least five Taliban capo identified as Shahwali, Malang Jan, Ata-ur-Rehman, Mohammad Akbar, and Toran Ismail were arrested in the vicinity of Nari district of Kunar, MoD said, adding that at least 7 Taliban bully boyz were killed and 14 others were maimed in the vicinity of Nawa district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... MoD also added that 11 Lions of Islam were killed and around 10 others were maimed in the vicinity of Sayad district of Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... , and 9 Lions of Islam were eliminated along with their 2 vehicles in Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz. The Ministry of Defense said at least 12 bully boyz were killed and 8 others were maimed while 3 others were arrested in Maidan Wardak province, and 6 Lions of Islam were killed while 8 others were wouned in Arghandab district of Zabul. At least 7 bully boyz were killed and 7 others were maimed during the operations in Pashtun-infested Logar, Uruzgan, and Farah provinces of Afghanistan. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-14 |
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