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Afghanistan
Taliban reacts at the killing of a top Al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan
2017-12-07
[Khaama Press] The Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
group has reacted at the killing of a top al-Qaeda leader in a joint Afghan and US forces operation in Afghanistan.

The group’s front man Zabiullah Mujahid issued a statement calling the killing of the bully boyz in ZZabul, Ghazni, and Paktia a propaganda.

Mujahid further added that no foreign or local bully boyz were killed during the operations in the three provinces as claimed by the security institutions.

This comes as the Afghan security authorities said Tuesday that a top leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network has been killed along with at least 80 other bully boyz during the operations of the Afghan and US forces. The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS), the bully boyz were killed during the operations conducted in Ghazni, Zabul, and Paktia provinces.

According to NDS, the senior al-Qaeda leader killed during the operation has been identified as Omar Khetab who was also famous was Omar Mansoor. Khetab is among the several top al-Qaeda network leaders who have been killed during the counter-terrorism operations so far.

A U.S. counter-terrorism Arclight airstrike conducted March 19 in Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
Province, Afghanistan, resulted in the death of Qari Yasin, a well-known al Qaeda terrorist leader responsible for the deaths of dozens of innocent victims, including two American service members.

According to Pentagon, Yasin, 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.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  According to NDS, the senior al-Qaeda leader killed during the operation has been identified as Omar Khetab who was also famous was Omar "Kandahar Kid" Mansoor.
Posted by: Frank G   2017-12-07 15:36  

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