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Common
05-21-2016, 07:17 PM
Either way im really going to miss him

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/3717f1d4e06f33d19a51869bfd8c56946ee69acd/c=0-369-2061-1919&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/2016/05/21/USATODAY/USATODAY/635994457890948921-AP-Afghanistan-Taliban.jpg


Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was likely killed Saturday in a U.S. drone strike in a remote area of Pakistan, a U.S. defense department official said.

Mansoor, who is believed to be around 48, formally assumed the leadership of the Taliban last year following the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar.
The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the attack, said Mansoor was believed killed when the drone hit a vehicle in which he and another militant were riding. The second person was killed by the strike authorized by President Obama, the official said.
The airstrike by U.S. Special Operations forces occurred along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, southwest of the town of Ahmad Wal.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/05/21/official-taliban-leader-mansoor-likely-killed-us-drone/84715058/

JDubya
05-21-2016, 07:22 PM
I wonder how long it will take the right to not blame Obama for killing yet another terrorist.

Because had the Taliban killed an American, they would be blaming Obama before the body got cold.

Common
05-21-2016, 07:49 PM
What are you talking about ?

exotix
05-21-2016, 10:15 PM
The virgins are picking through charred remains.

Tahuyaman
05-21-2016, 11:21 PM
And yet another #2 guy killed.

At this rate in 3,232 years they will finally run out of number #2 guys.

maineman
05-21-2016, 11:57 PM
And yet another #2 guy killed.

At this rate in 3,232 years they will finally run out of number #2 guys.this guy was #1

Tahuyaman
05-21-2016, 11:58 PM
this guy was #1


Actually they just claimed he was "high ranking". Whatever that is.

maineman
05-22-2016, 12:12 AM
Actually they just claimed he was "high ranking". Whatever that is.
Wrong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhtar_Mansour

Peter1469
05-22-2016, 04:03 AM
Official: Taliban leader Mansoor likely killed by U.S. drone (http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2016/05/21/official-taliban-leader-mansoor-likely-killed-us-drone/84716698/)

The strike occurred in Pakistan. The Taliban have confirmed it.

His likely replacement is worse: Haqqani of the Network that bears his name will replace Mansoor.


The airstrike by U.S. Special Operations forces occurred along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, southwest of the town of Ahmad Wal.

Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook earlier announced the U.S. conducted a strike aimed at Mansoor but said officials were still assessing the result of the attack.


Cook said Mansoor, who had been Mullah Omar's deputy, was "actively involved with planning attacks against facilities in Kabul and across Afghanistan." He said the Taliban leader presented a threat to Afghan civilians and security forces, as well as U.S. and allied forces.


Mansoor was elected head of the Taliban in July but was effectively in charge of the group since the death of the reclusive Mullah Omar as early as 2013, according to the Afghan government. The one-eyed, secretive Mullah Omar hosted Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in the years leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Peter1469
05-22-2016, 04:33 AM
Notice: Duplicate threads merged

sachem
05-22-2016, 06:40 AM
Who cares what his "rank" was. If he was a leader of some sort he is not one any longer. That is a plus.

Common
05-22-2016, 06:52 AM
Who cares what his "rank" was. If he was a leader of some sort he is not one any longer. That is a plus.

There ya go my sentiments exactly, I view it as one less enemy of america that wants to kill americans

donttread
05-22-2016, 08:08 AM
Either way im really going to miss him

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/3717f1d4e06f33d19a51869bfd8c56946ee69acd/c=0-369-2061-1919&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/2016/05/21/USATODAY/USATODAY/635994457890948921-AP-Afghanistan-Taliban.jpg


Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was likely killed Saturday in a U.S. drone strike in a remote area of Pakistan, a U.S. defense department official said.

Mansoor, who is believed to be around 48, formally assumed the leadership of the Taliban last year following the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar.
The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the attack, said Mansoor was believed killed when the drone hit a vehicle in which he and another militant were riding. The second person was killed by the strike authorized by President Obama, the official said.
The airstrike by U.S. Special Operations forces occurred along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, southwest of the town of Ahmad Wal.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/05/21/official-taliban-leader-mansoor-likely-killed-us-drone/84715058/


Wow, if this is all true than even I'm going to say good on this one. A number one man, instead of the by now proverbial number two man and no "collateral damage" . No kids who were at the scene to be motivated to become terrorist themselves based on the horror of death they witnessed. I don't even care that we're "not at war " in Afghanistan anymore.

Peter1469
05-22-2016, 08:27 AM
He was killed in Pakistan. Not Afghanistan.

donttread
05-22-2016, 08:52 AM
He was killed in Pakistan. Not Afghanistan.

Wasn't he killed in Pakistan because of our war against the taliban in Afghanistan. ?

Peter1469
05-22-2016, 08:56 AM
Wasn't he killed in Pakistan because of our war against the taliban in Afghanistan. ?

Yes.

donttread
05-22-2016, 10:04 AM
Who cares what his "rank" was. If he was a leader of some sort he is not one any longer. That is a plus.

Who cares? Those of us who had come to see the endless stream of "terrorist number two men" as propaganda for "yeah we just blew up a village and we aren't sure who was really there"
This was a good kill" or as close as one can come to such a thing ( if the reports are true)

waltky
06-04-2016, 09:26 PM
Will Mansour's death result in war or peace?...
http://www.politicalforum.com/images/smilies/confused.gif
An Assassination That Could Bring War Or Peace
June 4, 2016 - At a press conference in Hanoi on May 23, President Obama announced that he would lift the decades-old arms embargo on Vietnam, which he called “a lingering vestige of the Cold War.”


He also confirmed that, two days earlier, a missile launched from a U.S. Special Operations Forces drone had killed the Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansur in a taxi about a hundred miles southwest of Quetta, the capital of the Pakistani province of Balochistan. (The strike also killed the driver, Muhammad Azam, whose family the U.S. should compensate.) Obama called the air strike an “important milestone” in terminating that other vestige of the Cold War: the protean, never-ending conflict in Afghanistan. The strike, Obama said, “removed the leader of an organization that has continued to plot against and unleash attacks on American and Coalition forces, to wage war against the Afghan people, and align itself with extremist groups like al Qaeda.” Afghan social-media users thrilled to the news that the U.S. had, for the first time, taken the fight to the Taliban’s safe haven in Balochistan, from which the Taliban leadership sent suicide bombers and assassins into Afghanistan with impunity.

Obama also expressed the hope that the Taliban would “seize the opportunity” of Mansur’s death “to pursue the only real path for ending this long conflict—joining the Afghan government in a reconciliation process that leads to lasting peace and stability.” So far, the Taliban do not seem to have interpreted the assassination of their leader as an outstretched hand for peace. Like other fighters, including ours, the Taliban respond to blows that fail to destroy them with determination to make their enemy pay the consequences. Research on the “decapitation” of terrorist groups shows that it rarely splits them and often radicalizes them.

Mansur had taken charge of the organization less than a year before, when an attempt to start peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government triggered the revelation that Mansur had concealed the April, 2013, death of the Taliban’s founding leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar. A small group hurriedly appointed Mansur as successor, but the closed nature of the process, the visible effort to shore up Mansur’s support by Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the I.S.I., and Mansur’s two-year-long deception of the Taliban’s membership caused dissension from Mullah Omar’s family and other leaders.

On May 25th, the Afghan Taliban leadership council in Quetta chose Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, a religious scholar, as the new leader. As the head of the Taliban’s council of ulama (Islamic scholars), he played a role like general counsel to both Omar and Mansur, providing Islamic legal justification for acts such as suicide bombings and targeted killings. He had also served as a judge in the Taliban’s military courts, where he gained a reputation for harsh rectitude. So far, the succession process has gone smoothly: many of those who objected to Mansur’s selection have agreed to pledge loyalty to the new leader. Hibatullah need not exert much authority to continue the Taliban’s annual spring offensive, especially now that the fighters have an additional motivation: avenging their leader’s death.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-the-u-s-strike-on-the-taliban-means-for-peace-in-afghanistan

Peter1469
06-05-2016, 07:18 AM
The new guy isn't for the peace process.

zelmo1234
06-05-2016, 07:21 AM
The new guy isn't for the peace process.

Well there is a very effective remedy for those that don't want to live I peace?

I say that we use it.

Peter1469
06-05-2016, 08:01 AM
Well there is a very effective remedy for those that don't want to live I peace?

I say that we use it.

We should be less worried with who runs Afghanistan, so long as they know they can act up inside their own nation, but don't export their shit.