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India-Pakistan
CEO Abdullah confirms Mullah Mansoor killed in drone strike in Quetta
2016-05-22
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
has confirmed the supreme leader of the Taliban group Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a drone strike in Quetta, the placid provincial capital of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province of Pakistain.

CEO Abdullah confirmed the death of Mullah Mansoor in an online statement, saying "Taliban leader Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a drone strike in Quetta, Pakistain at 4:30 pm yesterday."

Abdulllah further added that Mansoor’s car was attacked in Dahl Bandin area of Quetta.

The confirmation by CEO Abdullah followed shortly after the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS), confirmed the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in an Arclight airstrike in Pakistain.

The US Department of Defense first confirmed on Saturday that the Taliban supreme leader was targeted in a drone strike.

"Today, the Department of Defense conducted an Arclight airstrike that targeted Taliban leader Mullah Mansur in a remote area of the Afghanistan-Pakistain border region," a statement by Department of Defense said.

The Afghan government also confirmed that the vehicle of Mullah Mansoor was targeted in an Arclight airstrike in the southwest of the town of Ahmad Wal.

However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
the Afghan government said an investigation is underway to confirm that death of Mansoor which would be announced as soon as they receive final information confirming his death.

Posted by:Fred

#1  All that effort and money expended to build the asset. The ISI is gonna be pissed
Posted by: Frank G   2016-05-22 12:23  

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