Latest US drone strike kills 10 ‘militants’ in South Waziristan
The drones targeted a group of Taliban and “foreigners” who gathered to note the death of one of Mullah Nazir’s commanders, who was killed in yesterday’s drone strike.
The drones targeted a group of Taliban and “foreigners” who gathered to note the death of one of Mullah Nazir’s commanders, who was killed in yesterday’s drone strike.
Rahmanullah, “a key commander” for Mullah Nazir, was reported killed in today’s strike. Nazir considers himself an al Qaeda leader.
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“Some insurgents were able to get inside the perimeter” of Forward Operating Base Salerno, “but they were neutralized,” a US military spokesman told LWJ.
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Commander Abbos Mansoor was named the military emir of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan just days before he was killed in a drone strike, while Abdul Aziz served as a combat cameraman and producer for Jundallah Studio.
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Sakhr al Taifi, a senior leader from Saudi Arabia who communicated with top al Qaeda leaders based in Pakistan, was killed in yesterday’s airstrike in Kunar.
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Special operations forces launched airstrikes in two districts in an attempt to kill two al Qaeda leaders in the northeastern province.
The drone program will resume, as Pakistan has balked at reopening NATO’s supply lines into Afghanistan, a US intelligence official involved in the program told LWJ.
ISAF has targeted the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan six times in Faryab since mid-March.
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The US has struck three times in the past five days in Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan.
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The Taliban eulogized Jamil ur Rahman, who was killed in a US airstrike on May 23, and threatened to retaliate.
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