Taliban's top operational commander killed-official

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Taliban's top operational commander killed-official
13 May 2007 04:16:20 GMT

KABUL, May 13 (Reuters) - The Taliban's top operational commander,
Mullah Dadullah, has been killed in Afghanistan, security officials
said on Sunday.

The officials did not have details of where and when Dadullah was
killed.

"Mullah Dadullah has been killed and his body is in Kandahar," one
official told Reuters.


Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL290132.htm

[babylonsister]

1. Are there #1's, 2's, and 3's, also with the Taliban? And

does it matter?

[derby378]

2. Now THAT'S what I call a Mother's Day present!

Happy Mother's Day, you stupid misogynistic Taliban pukes!

[IndianaGreen]

3. Again?

Another unsubstantiated claim of a "big kill."

Speaking of the real big fish, where is Mullah Omar?

[brokensymmetry]

4. Oh? Again?

See, that's chimpy's problem. He's fighting the
undead.

If he's ever going to win the war on Terra, he needs
to arm the troops with garlic, silver crosses, stakes,
and appropriate mallets.

Oh, and holy water. Lots of that.

[formercia]

14. They better use a big stake.

These guys seem to come back to life on a regular basis.

[Adsos Letter]

5. .....

"Mullah Dadullah has been killed and his body is in Kandahar," one
official told Reuters.

*snip*

And his replacement has already assumed his post...

The "top commander" of any military organization is only one step above a trained subordinate...this kind of thing is what allows for promotions in the chain-of-command during wartime.
Still...another one bites the dust...

[Posteritatis]

6. Man, he must be getting sick of getting killed all the time... (n/t)

[Eugene]

7. Update: Taliban's Dadullah killed in Afghan clash (Reuters)

Source: Reuters

Taliban's Dadullah killed in Afghan clash

33 minutes ago

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban's top operational commander, Mullah
Dadullah, has been killed in a clash in southern Afghanistan, security
officials said on Sunday.

"Mullah Dadullah has been killed and his body is in Kandahar," said
Saeed Ansari, spokesman for the intelligence department.

"Yes, he was killed last night and right now I have his body before
me," Kandahar's governor Assadullah Khalid told Reuters by phone.

-snip-

Another intelligence official said the one-legged Dadullah was killed
in a clash with Afghan troops in the southern province of Helmand on
Saturday night.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070513/wl_nm/afghan_taliban_dc_3

[maddezmom]

8. NATO confirms Mullah Dadullah is dead

NATO confirms Mullah Dadullah is dead
(CNN) -- NATO's International Security Assistance Forces confirmed earlier reports made by the Afghan government Sunday that top Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah Lang was killed in southern Afghanistan.

A NATO statement said he "left his sanctuary into southern Afghanistan where he was killed in a U.S.-led coalition operation supported by NATO."

The operation against Dadullah was made possible "by the Afghan National Security Forces and the Afghan people," the statement said.

According to government spokesman Khaleeq Ahmad, Dadullah was brought down by a joint Afghan army-police operation backed by NATO air support in southern Helmand Province.

more:http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/13/sunday/index.html

[iraqigirl2death]

9. well...

to hell
but the problem that another one will take his place
and then...??

[IronScorpio5]

10. Qiute frankly...the way the Taliban treated...

women
freedom of expression
religious freedom
freedom of speech
freedom of sexual choice


they are the VERY antithesis of progressive ideals


these reactionary sicko's can all rot in hell for I care....that includes Mullah Dadullah , Mullah Omar and all the other mullahs.

[ohio2007]

11. one legged man got his ass kicked

.......


An Associated Press reporter said the body, which was lying on a bed and dressed in a traditional Afghan robe, had no left leg and three bullet wounds: one to the back of the head and two to the stomach. Dadullah lost a leg fighting against the Soviet army that occupied Afghanistan in the 1980s.

.....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070513/ap_on_re_as/afghan_commander_killed

[annabanana]

12. Oh I'm sorry. . I can't help it.. . . "Mullah Dadulla" ?

Say that out loud. .
(I know, it's not funny.)

[annabanana]

13. You know. . I'd find these reports more easily believable

If I had ever heard of or seen their names before they were reported killed.

[acmavm]

15. You make a very good point. Maybe the bush** administration should

publish the membership roster of the Taliban and al Quaeda. Then maybe we could keep track. Make scorecards.

Like the death of one man will turn the situation in Afganistan around? Excuse me, but we've lost that one too. And we didn't need to. If the US Government had kept its eye on the ball and concentrated on Afganistan.

Don't reminde me, I know. No oil, no oil.

[IronScorpio5]

16. Good point....

Like the death of one man will turn the situation in Afganistan around?


no but losing this dipshit taliban is a start.

[goclark]

17. Bushco thinks it is the Wild Wild West

They have so many more to replace their so called "leaders."

Bush doesn't understand that they just keep coming ~
Remember when they killed Saddam?
What did that do to end the violence?

[ohio2007]

18. 3 Taliban released for Italian journalist killed with top commander

KABUL, Afghanistan: Three Taliban who had been released from prison in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist were killed alongside the insurgency's top field commander over the weekend, the Afghan intelligence service said Wednesday.

Mullah Dadullah, a one-legged militant who orchestrated a rash of Taliban suicide attacks and beheadings, died of gunshot wounds in a U.S.-led operation over the weekend in the southern province of Helmand.

An official with Afghanistan's intelligence service identified the three others as Mullah Shah Mansoor — Dadullah's brother — Mullah Hamdullah and Commander Ghafar. They had been freed in March in a prisoner swap for the release of Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo.

The prisoner swap was widely criticized in Afghanistan in part because two Afghans kidnapped with Mastrogiacomo were not freed as part of that deal and were executed by the Taliban.


snip

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/16/asia/AS-GEN-Afghan-Commander-Killed.php

imo, they got their cumuppance after the ransome $ they got finally ran out. That got somebody to sell them out.