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Afghanistan
Foreign Forces Kill Taliban District Chief in Afghanistan
2011-04-17
[Tolo News] A Taliban Shadow district chief was killed in foreign forces' air strike in western Afghanistan, local officials said on Saturday.

The incident happened on Friday in Kashak-e-Rebaat Sangi district in east of Herat province when Mullah Mohayuddin a Taliban shadow district chief and three Talibs were killed in foreign forces' air strike, Shafiq Behroziyan, a front man for governor of Herat told TOLOnews. There were no civilian casualties in the attack, he added.

The Taliban have not yet commented.

Previously dozens of Taliban capos and hard boyz have been killed in foreign forces' air strikes in the country.

Kashak-e-Rebaat Sangi is an insecure district in the province where faceless myrmidons have been active. Foreign forces have launched military operations in Afghanistan to clear volatile areas of bully boys.
Posted by:Fred

#4  How about "dead SOB"?
Posted by: Old Patriot   2011-04-17 20:14  

#3  Howzaout "Taliban Lieutenant Colonel Wanna-be," 'moose?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2011-04-17 10:00  

#2  I still think it would help with perspective if an artificial rank was assigned to such managers, parallel to military rank.

Likewise, I think it would help morale among our soldiers. For example, it would make a lot more sense to a squad if instead of telling them that they bagged a "Taliban shadow district chief, facilitator and high poobah", that instead they had bagged a "Taliban Lieutenant Colonel."

Doing so also highlights that the Taliban *do not* have military rank, so by the Geneva Conventions, *do not* have the rights and privileges due military personnel.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-04-17 09:15  

#1  One down, thirty-three to go.
Posted by: American Delight   2011-04-17 08:42  

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