on snuffies in eastern Kunar province... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
of Afghanistan amid reports the son of Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for
students...
Pakistain Chief Mullah Fazlullah
...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
has also been killed.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the airstrike was carried out in Chogam and Chinar Banda areas of Shiltan district.
Without disclosing further information regarding the identities of the snuffies killed in the airstrike, the Silab Corps confirmed the deaths of at least fifteen snuffies were killed.
This comes as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain had earlier confirmed that the son Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in an airstrike in eastern Kunar.
In a statement sent to the local media outlets, TTP has said at least nineteen jacket wallahs were also among killed in the airstrike.
TTP has blamed the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS), for providing information regarding the TTP hideout which was targeted by the US air forces.
The attack was reportedly carried out in Sultan Khel area of Kunar near Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...tribal region of Pakistain.
The sources in Pakistain have said that a hideout of the group Ghaz was camp was targeted in the airstrike and the commander of Bajaur chapter of TTP Gul Mohammad was also killed in the raid.