Highest-Ranking Taliban Kidnapper Bombed To Death
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. airstrikes targeting a meeting of Taliban leaders killed a high- ranking commander involved in the kidnappings of 23 South Koreans two months ago, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
Meanwhile, NATO reported that another of its soldiers had died in an explosion in Afghanistan, where violence has soared this year amid a Taliban-led insurgency. ( Editor’s note: Notice how the always propaganda-minded AP immeditately tempers any pro-coaltion news with anti-coalition news. They do this all the time. Wheneve there is a good news story, they double it up with bad news. I read their wire reports daily, and have never seen them do a vice-versa - any bad news stories don’t get watered down with good news. In addition, if you go to the MNF-I website, you’ll see that in addition to the one or two press releases about terrorist bombings, there are a preponderance of good news releases. The AP consistently runs MNF-I’s bad news reports as wire stories, but consistently refuse to run the MNF’s releases about succeses against terrorists. )
Mullah Abdullah Jan, the Taliban commander of Qara Bagh district in Ghazni province, was among 12 killed in the strike on a mud-brick housing compound overnight, said Ghazni provincial police chief Gen. Ali Shah Ahmadzai.
Jan was the fifth Taliban commander allegedly involved in the abductions who has been reported killed in recent days, and believed to be the highest-ranking one eliminated so far. Jan watched as his fighters stopped and kidnapped a tour bus carrying the South Koreans in July, Ahmadzai said.
Neither the U.S. military or NATO’s International Security Assistance Force had any immediate comment.
Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry on Sunday said police had killed three Taliban commanders allegedly involved in the abductions. Another, a Mullah Mateen, was said to be killed in fighting earlier in the month.
There have been several military operations in Ghazni since the release of the last of the captives on Aug. 30, possibly reflecting the desires of the Afghan government or U.S. and NATO forces to assert authority over the rebellious southeastern region following the abductions.
Two of the Korean hostages were slain soon after the kidnappings on July 19. Two women were released later during the Taliban’s negotiations with South Korea. The remaining 19 were freed after further Taliban-South Korean talks.
An explosion Monday killed the NATO soldier and wounded another in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said Tuesday. The NATO statement did not provide any further details about the incident or the nationality of the victims.
In Helmand province, meanwhile, a gunbattle in Garmser district Monday killed six suspected Taliban, while nine others were killed in an airstrike in Kajaki district, the Ministry of Defense said.
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See Donkey-Man…you can run and cowardly kidnap women and men but in the end you cant hide. Boom boom boom on your ass biaatch!
September 18th, 2007 at 3:14 amShizznitz…these MOFO’s are going down one by one…let me rephrase that….dozens by dozens. You can even see that on LiveLeak.com that they are getting blasted…the AQ’s only propaganda thats going to be left on the Web…are Re-runs! LOL!!
September 18th, 2007 at 3:49 am“Notice how the always propaganda-minded AP immeditately tempers any pro-coaltion news with anti-coalition news.”
Isn’t that the truth. They just have to keep any feeling of progress down no matter what.
God knows we mourn the loss of all that are fallen but instead they only use their deaths as propaganda for their political aims. To me it is insulting to the fallen.
Highest Ranking Taliban Kidnapper Bombed to Death
Outf’nstanding! Another waste of skin removed by the precision strike of our fighter pilots!
No mercy for the merciless.
Way to go guys!
September 18th, 2007 at 7:26 pm