Negotiations for the surrender of ex-potentate Mullah Mohammad Omar were under way in southern Afghanistan, and the former ruling militia's intelligence chief was killed in U.S. bombardment last week. Qari Ahmadullah was believed to be the highest Taliban official to be killed in the campaign. Abdullah Tawheedi, a deputy intelligence minister for the interim government in Kabul, confirmed Ahmadullah's death. Ahmadullah, 40, had been identified by the coalition as one of the Taliban leaders it was trying to capture. He was among 25 people killed in Naka, in Pakhtia province, on Dec. 27, when U.S. planes attacked a house where he was staying.
Would that have been the village where there weren't any Taliban or al-Qaeda according to Afghan Islamic Press? Or was that another one? |