Saturday, December 23, 2006

One Down, ???? To Go

via Reuters:

"U.S. kills top Taliban leader

A side gunner on a Chinook 47 looks out over Helmand, Afghanistan in this file picture. U.S. forces said on Saturday they had killed the Taliban's military chief in southern Afghanistan, where the insurgency is at its bloodiest, a man in the top four of the group's leadership and with links to Osama bin Laden.
A side gu
nner on a Chinook 47 looks out over Helmand, Afghanistan in this file picture. U.S. forces said on Saturday they had killed the Taliban's military chief in southern Afghanistan, where the insurgency is at its bloodiest, a man in the top four of the group's leadership and with links to Osama bin Laden. (REUTERS/POOL/David Swanson)

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. forces said on Saturday they had killed the Taliban's military chief in southern Afghanistan, who had close links to Osama bin Laden and was heir to the rebel leadership.

Akhtar Mohammad Osmani was the most senior leader killed yet and was targeted in a region where the insurgency is at its bloodiest, a military spokesman said. The Taliban denied he was dead.

Osmani and two other guerillas were killed in an air strike on their car on an isolated desert road on Tuesday, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition force, Colonel Tom Collins, said in Kabul. . ."

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