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| Ismial won't be playing himself in the movie "Lone Survivor" |
| 2008-04-18 |
| H/T Blackfive -- this is the guy the SEAL team went looking for, and Ismial takes credit for the death of the 16 killed in the helicopter crash. Marcus Dad's posted at Blackfive -- he's delighted, alto, that not the word/s he used! One bad tango gone A senior leader of a Taliban splinter group known as the Bara bin Malek Front, one of the most dangerous insurgent groups operating in northeastern Afghanistan, was killed during a blazing shootout with Pakistani police in the North Western Frontier Province earlier this week. Security forces opened fire on Mullah Ahmad Shah, better known as his nom de guerre Commander Ismail, after he failed to stop at a police check point near the Afghan border. Ismail was attempting to smuggle a kidnapped Afghan day laborer back to an insurgent hideout on the Afghan side of the border, according to Pakistani security officials who spoke with CBS. Taliban spokesman Zabibullah Mujahid also confirmed the killing of a top Taliban commander in the area according to the same report. -------------------- Ismail repeatedly spoke with the media, claiming credit for various attacks and threatening more bloodshed. He spoke with the American news network NBC twice in 2005, once in August and again in December, the latter of which he allowed journalists to videotape his discussion. In the tape, he detailed how he and his men ambushed the Navy SEAL’s and even presented video footage of the attack. Osama bin Laden reportedly sent a letter praising him and his men shortly after the two helicopters were shot down in the summer of 2005. Ismail’s death may seriously jeopardize the survivability of the Bara bin Malek Front with remaining members choosing to fold into wider known Taliban channels or the al Qaeda element in Kunar led by the elusive Abu Ikhlas al-Masri. A Kunar based Taliban sub-commander who spoke with CBS described the possibility Ismail had been killed as “a full-scale blow.” |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #3 these guys don't even deserve Hell...let their misbegotten corpses be eaten away by pigs, the OTHER white meat! |
| Posted by: Justrand 2008-04-18 21:41 |
| #2 May he un-rest in Hell, NS. For eternity. Along with all his jihadi buddies. >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-18 17:34 |
| #1 May he rest in Hell. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-04-18 17:08 |