Posted on 08/03/2007 12:32:48 PM PDT by DevSix
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - U.S.-led airstrikes hit a Taliban gathering in volatile southern Afghanistan and killed at least three senior figures of the militant group, government officials said Friday.
The ministry said its intelligence reports indicated three militant leaders, including Taliban commander for Helmand province Mullah Rahim, were among those killed Thursday. The Taliban commander for all of southern Afghanistan, Dadullah Mansoor, was at the scene but his fate was not immediately known, Azimi said.
A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, denied Rahim was killed.
The U.S.-led coalition would not confirm Azimi's account. But a coalition statement said it carried out a "precision airstrike against two notorious Taliban commanders conducting a leadership meeting in a remote area of the Baghran district."
"During a sizable meeting of senior Taliban commanders, coalition forces employed precision-guided munitions on their location after ensuring there were no innocent Afghans in the surrounding area," the statement said. The coalition gave few other details and no word of casualties.
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Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.
I wonder if it was a pilot or a Predator that launched the air strike. Either way, less Taliban makes us all safer.
Let’s hope that Dadullah is a Dead Mullah.......
ping
Better to kill them than arrest them. Nobody takes hostages to trade for a dead body.
Get those buggers.
I hate the Taliban, ooooooooopppppppps, should I ask O’Reily if i can hate tehm?
Hey! Wait a min! Not so fast! The Taliban have ramped up
their offensives in the summer season!! They have seized
remote outposts...........
........................for hrs at a time..............
..............................before retreating having
suffered disporportionately large casualties.
MV
Get those buggers.
I hate the Taliban, ooooooooopppppppps, should I ask O’Reily if i can hate them?
O’Really can go pound sand..............
Squashing the cockroaches.
GRRRRRRREAT news! Trickle down annihilation works!
That certainly was a soothing read.
But wait, maybe it was another wedding! (sarcasm on)
More likely a target rich environment!!!!!
Now if they will just target the FUNERAL of these dogs, we can make a bigger dent in their numbers.
That’s gotta leave a grease spot.
Good News!
Targeting funerals would have an exponential return. Think about it.
Yes. Take out 2/3rds of em every weekend.
Does anyone watch him anymore?
Only puppies and girlscouts hit... (demjazeera)
Amen!
What I want now is video. I’m addicted to war porn!
I was referring to this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875687/posts
Those who don’t swear by him, swear at him..........
The problem is if you go to the website and see all the pics of civilian casualties and then see the CNN video, then you understand why our forces are hamstrung by ROE that say we can’t use force around ‘civilians.”
How do we know these villagers who are hosting the Taliban are innocent civilians and not sympathizers?
Are they assuming the risks of war when they host these guys or are they merely hospitable?
For some reason I doubt libs will even care. This is what they say we need more of yet they will pretend it never happened
Nice to see that the USA is still allowed to use either Predators or planes to go on the warpath against these Islamofasicsts. The Dems will probably try to have Rules of Engagement which allow the terrorists to fire first, run to Civil Defense subway stations 7 floors down, before our guys and gals can bomb them. Hil or BO would love that so they could be called tolerant and Christian by the leftists like Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo.
Dude no ping?
Uh.....
Are we watching the ferocity of the Taliban’s Spring offensive — or is it time for the Summer offensive -—— or a build up toward the Fall offensive...
Hell, a few more of these ferocious Taliban offensives and all the bastards will be dead....
I sure would like to see us conduct an “offensive” that ended up with entire Taliban supporting villages, cities, territories or nations DESTROYED..
Time for these 7th century wannabe bastards to see the “Jihad fighting” capabilities of the 21st century “Crusaders”...
If they run, they're sympathizers. If they stand still, they're well-disciplined...sympathizers...
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