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Title: Senior Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan
Post by: Wretched Excess on July 22, 2008, 01:44:10 PM
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Senior Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan

KABUL (Reuters) - A senior Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan surrendered to Pakistani authorities and British forces killed another leader, dealing a "shattering blow" to the militant group's leadership, the British army said on Tuesday.
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Mullah Rahim, the top commander for southern Helmand province, gave himself up after British forces had killed two other Taliban leaders in little over three weeks.

Hours after his surrender, another senior Taliban commander, Abdul Rasaq, also known as "Mullah Sheikh", was killed in a British missile strike 15 km (9 miles) north of the town of Musa Qala in Helmand on Monday morning, the British army said in a statement. Three other insurgents also died.

Rasaq headed Taliban actions around Musa Qala and was active in the insurgency for a number of years, it said.

"The Taliban's senior leadership structure has suffered a shattering blow," British army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Robin Matthews said in the statement.

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Title: Re: Senior Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan
Post by: Rebel on July 22, 2008, 01:50:01 PM
[youtube=425,350]hMenB9Ywh2Q[/youtube]

 :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Senior Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan
Post by: Jim on July 22, 2008, 03:09:29 PM
take no prisoners. 
Title: Re: Senior Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan
Post by: Chris_ on July 22, 2008, 03:10:55 PM
take no prisoners. 

Unless you want them beating you in court 6 months from now.
Title: Re: Senior Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan
Post by: Wretched Excess on July 22, 2008, 03:16:12 PM
take no prisoners. 

Unless you want them beating you in court 6 months from now.

no kidding.  hi-freaking-5
Title: Re: Senior Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan
Post by: BlueStateSaint on July 22, 2008, 03:51:27 PM
take no prisoners. 

Unless you want them beating you in court 6 months from now.

no kidding.  hi-freaking-5

Would the Brits hand them over to the US, or would they hand them over to the Afghan government?  If it's the latter, there's no guarantee that they'd get a trial, or even be kept in custody, for that matter. 

Now that I think of it, yeah, it would be better to kill them on the battlefield.
Title: Re: Senior Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan
Post by: RightCoast on July 22, 2008, 05:12:01 PM
How long before the media gives the credit to the Obama trip?
Title: Re: Senior Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan
Post by: Chris_ on July 22, 2008, 05:13:21 PM
How long before the media gives the credit to the Obama trip?

3-2-1...
Title: Re: Senior Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan
Post by: Hawkgirl on July 22, 2008, 07:37:34 PM
While I'm not sorry he's dead...I still think the better punishment would have been locking him up in one of our Woman's Maximum Security prisons here in the States.... :naughty: