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The strike was carried out by multiple unmanned aircraft operated by U.S. Special Operations forces.
There was no collateral damage, the first official added.
President Barack Obama authorized the strike.
The Pentagon confirmed the strike in a statement but didn't say whether Mansour was killed.
"Mansour has been the leader of the Taliban and actively involved with planning attacks against facilities in Kabul and across Afghanistan, presenting a threat to Afghan civilians and security forces, our personnel, and coalition partners," Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in the statement. "Mansour has been an obstacle to peace and reconciliation between the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban, prohibiting Taliban leaders from participating in peace talks with the Afghan government that could lead to an end to the conflict."
This has got to piss off the nutters.
This has got to piss off the nutters.
Taliban leader Mullah Mansour likely killed in airstrike, U.S. officials say - CNNPolitics.com
The strike was carried out by multiple unmanned aircraft operated by U.S. Special Operations forces.
There was no collateral damage, the first official added.
President Barack Obama authorized the strike.
The Pentagon confirmed the strike in a statement but didn't say whether Mansour was killed.
"Mansour has been the leader of the Taliban and actively involved with planning attacks against facilities in Kabul and across Afghanistan, presenting a threat to Afghan civilians and security forces, our personnel, and coalition partners," Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in the statement. "Mansour has been an obstacle to peace and reconciliation between the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban, prohibiting Taliban leaders from participating in peace talks with the Afghan government that could lead to an end to the conflict."
Seems like some nutters are happy........This has got to piss off the nutters.
Taliban leader Mullah Mansour likely killed in airstrike, U.S. officials say - CNNPolitics.com
The strike was carried out by multiple unmanned aircraft operated by U.S. Special Operations forces.
There was no collateral damage, the first official added.
President Barack Obama authorized the strike.
The Pentagon confirmed the strike in a statement but didn't say whether Mansour was killed.
"Mansour has been the leader of the Taliban and actively involved with planning attacks against facilities in Kabul and across Afghanistan, presenting a threat to Afghan civilians and security forces, our personnel, and coalition partners," Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in the statement. "Mansour has been an obstacle to peace and reconciliation between the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban, prohibiting Taliban leaders from participating in peace talks with the Afghan government that could lead to an end to the conflict."
...obama has a tendency to make up and release information when he feels he needs a little boost.
This has got to piss off the nutters.
Taliban leader Mullah Mansour likely killed in airstrike, U.S. officials say - CNNPolitics.com
The strike was carried out by multiple unmanned aircraft operated by U.S. Special Operations forces.
There was no collateral damage, the first official added.
President Barack Obama authorized the strike.
The Pentagon confirmed the strike in a statement but didn't say whether Mansour was killed.
"Mansour has been the leader of the Taliban and actively involved with planning attacks against facilities in Kabul and across Afghanistan, presenting a threat to Afghan civilians and security forces, our personnel, and coalition partners," Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in the statement. "Mansour has been an obstacle to peace and reconciliation between the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban, prohibiting Taliban leaders from participating in peace talks with the Afghan government that could lead to an end to the conflict."
Picking off a single Taliban sergeant (lieutenant? captain?) in a multi million dollar operation using a multi million dollar missile seems like overkill and somehow doesn't seem like the right way to wage war.
obama has a tendency to make up and release poll numbers too. He's the presidunce. He can get anyone to lie for him....obama has a tendency to make up and release information when he feels he needs a little boost.
"Nice try".......But you should note that Obama's positive polling is the highest its been in quite a long time
but sorry to spoil your Saturday.
Mullah Abdul Rauf, who recently reconciled with Mansour after initially rebelling against his ascension to the leadership, told The Associated Press that Mansour died in the strike late Friday "in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area." The office of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani confirmed in a statement that the strike took place but could not confirm Mansour's death. Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, however, said that Mansour is "more than likely" dead. Speaking live on television as he chaired a Cabinet meeting, Abdullah said Mansour's death would have a positive impact on attempts to bring peace to Afghanistan, where the Taliban have been waging an insurgency for 15 years.
Mansour was "the main figure preventing the Taliban joining the peace process," Abdullah said. "From the day he took over the Taliban following the death of Mullah Omar, he intensified violence against ordinary citizens, especially in Afghanistan." Mansour formally led the Taliban after the death was announced last summer of Mullah Mohammad Omar, the movement's founder. Mansour, Mullah Omar's deputy, concealed Mullah Omar's death for more than two years, and ran the Taliban in his name until the death was revealed by the Afghan government. The revelation caused wide fissures in the movement that Mansour worked hard to mend.
Taliban leader Mullah Mansour. The U.S. conducted an airstrike Saturday, May 21, 2016, against the Taliban leader the Pentagon said, and a U.S. official said Mansour was believed to have been killed. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the attack occurred in a remote region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. He said the U.S. was studying the results of the attack.
Mullah Rauf was an early detractor of Mansour's but decided earlier this year to declare loyalty to him in the interest of unifying the movement. Earlier, the U.S. Department of Defense said a drone strike had targeted Mansour "in a remote area of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region." Afghan officials, who spoke on the condition that they not be named as they were not authorized to speak to media on the subject, said the drone strike took place in Pakistan's Baluchistan province, in the Ahmad Wal area.
The Afghan government has long accused the Pakistani authorities of harboring and supporting the Afghan Taliban. The drone strike targeted Mansour's vehicle which was carrying Mansour and one other person at the time, a U.S. military source said. Another Taliban source identified the driver as Muhammad Azam Hasanai, and said the vehicle the two men were traveling in was completely destroyed in the drone strike.
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obama has a tendency to make up and release information when he feels he needs a little boost.
Progressive nutters are not happy...This has got to piss off the nutters.
Taliban leader Mullah Mansour likely killed in airstrike, U.S. officials say - CNNPolitics.com
The strike was carried out by multiple unmanned aircraft operated by U.S. Special Operations forces.
There was no collateral damage, the first official added.
President Barack Obama authorized the strike.
The Pentagon confirmed the strike in a statement but didn't say whether Mansour was killed.
"Mansour has been the leader of the Taliban and actively involved with planning attacks against facilities in Kabul and across Afghanistan, presenting a threat to Afghan civilians and security forces, our personnel, and coalition partners," Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in the statement. "Mansour has been an obstacle to peace and reconciliation between the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban, prohibiting Taliban leaders from participating in peace talks with the Afghan government that could lead to an end to the conflict."
