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Afghanistan
3 Al-Qaeda network members killed in Paktika province of Afghanistan
2017-04-10
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three al-Qaeda network members were killed during an Arclight airstrike in southeastern Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province of Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) front man Dawlat Waziri said the Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Jani Khel district.

This comes as the US Department of Defense confirmed the death of a high level al-Qaeda network leader who was killed in Paktika province last month.

The al-Qaeda leader killed in the Arclight airstrike was identified as Qari Yasin with the Department of Defense saying he was a senior terrorist figure from 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...
, Pakistain, had ties to Tehrik-e Taliban and had plotted multiple al Qaeda terror attacks, including the Sept. 20, 2008, bombing on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad that killed dozens of innocent people, among them U.S. Air Force Maj. Rodolfo I. Rodriguez and Navy Cryptologic Technician Third Class Petty Officer Matthew J. O’Bryant.

In the meantime, Gen. Waziri said at least eight ISIS snuffies were killed in another Arclight airstrike in eastern 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..
province while eight Taliban forces of Evil were killed in a similar operation in northern Kunduz province.

Posted by:Fred

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