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U.S. drones strike at Afghan Taliban leader in Pakistan
Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | May 21, 2016 | Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali

Posted on 05/21/2016 4:03:16 PM PDT by Enchante

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States carried out a drone strike on Saturday against the leader of Afghan Taliban, likely killing him on the Pakistan side of the remote border region with Afghanistan in a mission authorized by U.S. President Barack Obama, officials said.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghan; afghanistan; afghantaliban; alqaeda; drone; haqqaninetwork; islam; jihad; jihadists; josephvotel; mullahakhtarmansour; nawazsharif; pakistan; quetta; religionofpeace; taliban; terror; wagthedog; wot
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To: Straight Vermonter

Thanks...


21 posted on 05/22/2016 12:38:01 AM PDT by Dog (..."I'm just a cook...")
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To: Enchante

It’s the opium. We need Obama’s and Congress supply to keep them as stupid as possible. Read that at Penthouse magazine in my early days, 1970’s. Pass it on. Shed’s light on what this all about. Whoever controls the drug trade controls the world.


22 posted on 05/22/2016 12:56:26 AM PDT by DISCO
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To: DISCO

Wow. What happened?


23 posted on 05/22/2016 1:19:25 AM PDT by DISCO
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To: Blue Jays

“likely killing him...”

Everybody is a leader in these cultic organizations. big deal


24 posted on 05/22/2016 2:42:47 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Enchante
"No credit deserved for Obama

He's going to have to do a lot of killing so Hillary can "illustrate" how tough she would be on terrorism. I hear she's now a suspect in the downing of the Egyptian plane because the pilot was a Muslim who had ties to Benghazi and he needed to be "disappeared".....

25 posted on 05/22/2016 3:37:37 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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