Posted on 12/27/2006 9:49:01 PM PST by jdm
KABUL, Dec 27 -- NATO-led forces killed a mid-level Taliban commander and another militant in Afghanistan while a civilian driver died in a rebel attack on a convoy of oil tankers, officials said ON Wednesday.
Abdullah Jan Pashtoon, a mid-level insurgent leader and an another rebel were killed in a Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) airstrike in eastern Laghman province on Friday, the force said in a statement.
“Several sources of intelligence, assessed collectively, indicate that ISAF forces did indeed kill Jan Pashtoon,” spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Paul Fitzpatrick said in a statement.
The statement said Pashtoon was known to have ordered roadside bombings and to have directed suicide bombings and armed attacks against Afghan and ISAF forces.
US-led forces said on Saturday they killed Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, a key Taliban leader and close associate of Osama bin Laden in southern Helmand province on Dec 19.
A spokesman for the Taliban militia denied that Osmani was killed and said that a low-ranking commander and three other militants were killed in that attack.
Separately, insurgents fired at oil tankers carrying fuel for a US military base in southern Afghanistan late on Tuesday, killing a driver and wounding three others, district governor Habibullah Khan said.
Four fuel tankers came under automatic weapons fire in the Takhtapul district of Taliban-infested Kandahar province on the highway linking Kandahar city with the Pakistani border, Mr Khan said.
“One driver of a fuel tanker truck was killed and three others were wounded in the Taliban attack,” Mr Khan said, adding the tankers did not catch fire.
Mr Khan blamed the attack on remnants of the Taliban. —AFP
OOH RAH!
good
The NG unit near my moms place is a transpo unit, with many tanker specialists, and most are deployed, a lot in Afghanisatan (That was a typo, but I'll leave it). I wonder if these drivers were mil or civ contractors. Anyway, I thank them for their service, and may they RIP.
The drivers were likely locals, from Afghanistan and or Pakistan. The local/regional war lords usually have a hand in anything and everything related to commerce, when it comes to supplying coalition bases. It's amazing that more fuel trucks aren't smoked by the T-ban. A constant stream of fuel trucks and cargo trucks run between Karachi and Kandahar. The drivers have big testes.
Somebody seems to have unleashed an assassinate the leaders unit.
Good hunting, fellows!
Shoulda been done 15 years ago, at least before the Tali killed the stone buddha's!
“Several sources of intelligence, assessed collectively, indicate that ISAF forces did indeed kill Jan Pashtoon,” spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Paul Fitzpatrick said in a statement.
Sure makes you wonder why we hit this MID-LEVEL manager...who was Jan Pashtoon.
He was connected to Maulana Liaquat who was the protector of Ayman Zawahiri.
Me thinks they are sniffing around Zawahiri..
Sniffing . . . then snuffing . . .
If the insurgents can't even light up a civilian fuel tanker when the bad guys make one of their rare attacks, then they aren't packing much firepower.
Could just be local bandits trying to score some cargo rather than Taliban (or whatever is left of them). Tough to tell the difference between them anymore, anyway.
Nothing to wonder about. We don't need him alive for intel and we don't want him alive to aid Al Qaeda.
So he's dead.
Next.
It would be smart and well worth the money to swamp the markets in Pakistan and Afghanistan with 'specially-designed' cell phones and etc.
Sounds like you live on the edge, outside the wire. ;0) Get some!
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