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2015-08-02 Afghanistan

Taliban Mourns Mullah Omar's Death in Kabul

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Posted by Fred 2015-08-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 Will thar be a funeral processional? seems kinda a rank sorta deal if you catch my drift.

Posted by Shipman 2015-08-02 13:46|| 2015-08-02 13:46|| Front Page Top

#2 There are allegations that MO had been poisoned to death, ostensib by his new successor Mansour.

* FYI JAPAN TIMES > OPINION: THE WEST MAY COME TO MISS THE TALIBAN'S MULLHA OMAR.

The onset of MO's death brings wid it the threat of a more violent, more pro-Jihad, non-isolationist/non-AFPAK-only-focused Taliban or other WORSE, NOT-NECESSARILY-ISIS-CONTROLLED RADICAL MILITANT GROUP.

* TOPIX >[Long War Journal] TURKESTAN ISLAMIC PARTY[TIP = ETIP/ETIM] THANKS AL-SHABAAB FOR [attacking +]DAMAGING CHINESE EMBASSY IN SOMALIA, URGES MORE ATTACKS AGZ CHINESE INTERESTS.

Talibunnies, ISIS/ISIL in AFPAK, + an increasingly assertive or aggressive Tip/ETIP/ETIM.

* Also from LONG WAR JOURNAL, TOPIX > OMAR SUCCESSOR/THE TALIBAN'S NEW LEADER HAS AL-QAEDA LINKS.

The Hell You Say!

DITTO AS PER THE HAQQANIS.

No surprise here as I've always said Mullah Omar is, or now was, one of the younger members of Osama Bin Laden's inner circle.

ONCE AGAIN AGAIN, LITTLE VIRGINA, WE LEARN WHY THE FBI-CIA'S RESEARCH + BIOGRAPHIES INTO OSAMA, ETAL. IS NEITHER THE BEST NOR ACCURATE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-08-02 22:43|| 2015-08-02 22:43|| Front Page Top

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