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| Afghanistan |
| NATO forces kill top Taliban commander |
| 2010-12-31 |
| A top Taliban commander and his bodyguard were killed during operation by Afghan and NATO forces in northern Afghanistan, police said. Mawlawi Bahadur was killed Thursday night (local time) in Chahar Dara, a militant-plagued district of Kunduz province, police spokesman Haroon Aryayenezhad said. Bahadur was the Taliban's shadow governor for the northern Afghan province. One of his bodyguards was also killed and four others accompanying him injured in the operation, Mr Aryayenezhad said. "Mullah Bahadur was appointed as Taliban governor for Kunduz province around two months ago," he said. "He was directly responsible for organising military operations against Afghan and Coalition troops in Kunduz province." The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed an operation "targeting people who worked closely with the Taliban shadow governor in the province" took place. The alliance said one man had been killed in the operation but would not confirm his identity. The Taliban have been waging a nine-year insurgency, which 140,000 US-led NATO troops are battling in order to hand security control to the Afghan government by 2014. The militia operates shadow administrations in all 34 provinces. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 Lots of turnover in those positions. |
| Posted by: Keystone 2010-12-31 21:58 |
| #2 Well...not as shadowy as you thought, eh, Mawlawi? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-12-31 19:47 |
| #1 love it when they go from "shadow governor" to "chalk-outline governor" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-12-31 18:02 |