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Drone strike kill 3 militants, injures 3 more in Laghman province
[Khaama Press] At least three bandidos Death Eaters were killed in a US Arclight airstrike in eastern Laghman
...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a reputionagreat wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
 province of Afghanistan.

The 20st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the latest airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Alingar district.

The source further added that a local commander of the bandidos Death Eaters was also maimed in the airstrike that eliminated a hideout of a terror group in Noor Lam Sahib valley.

The airstrike did not incur any casualties to the ordinary civilians as well as the bandidos Death Eaters involved in the operations, the Silab Corps added.

Laghman has been among the relatively calm provinces in the East since the fall of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
 regime but the anti-government armed bandidos Death Eaters have been attempting increase insurgency activities in this province.

Laghman is located close to 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..
har province where both the Taliban and bandidos Death Eaters loyal Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 are actively operating in some of its remote districts.

Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-27
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