Top Taliban Member among others killed in clash

[bfp]

SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A close aid to supreme Taliban leader Mullah Omar has been killed in a clash in south Afghanistan, an Afghan official said on Monday, the second major blow to the hardline Islamic movement in under a month.

News of the death of Mullah Abdul Razzaq Nafees, a member of the 10-strong Taliban shura (council) formed in June, came just days after the Taliban confirmed that Mullah Abdur Rahim, its top military commander in southern Afghanistan, had been killed.


Abdul Razzaq Achakzai, a senior Afghan military commander, said Nafees was killed in a clash with U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces about 10 days ago in central Uruzgan province.


"He was among the many Taliban killed in that fighting," he said.


"The Taliban are persistently showing signs of weakness," Achakzai told Reuters in the town of Spin Boldak, close to Pakistan border.


Mullah Abdul Samad, a Taliban intelligence officer, neither confirmed nor denied the report but said they had had no contact with Nafees for the past two weeks.


"Presently, we don't know whether he is dead or alive," he told Reuters.


Omar had appointed Nafees to the 10-man Taliban leadership formed to intensify the "jihad," or holy war, against U.S.-led coalition troops and Afghan forces.


Nafees also led Taliban forces during a major U.S.-led operation against the Islamic militia in Dai Chopan district of the southern Zabul province in August.


More than 100 Taliban rebels were killed in that operation.


The one-eyed Omar, whose whereabouts are unknown, last week appointed Mullah Wakil Ahmed, elder brother of Rahim, as commander of Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan.


Rahim was among 15 guerrillas killed in southern Kandahar province on September 15.


Taliban remnants have stepped up attacks in recent months in southern Afghanistan, the former stronghold of the radical Islamic regime ousted from power in late 2001 by U.S.-led forces.


More than 300 people, including aid workers, U.S. soldiers and many Taliban guerrillas, have been killed in violence across Afghanistan since early August.


U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage on Sunday played down the attacks, saying they showed the Taliban was "frightened."

[Adam D]

I'm glad you're such a big fan of death.

[bfp]

yes im such a big fan of death.



zip it cunt.

[randyc]

seems to me that the really big fans of death are the talibs.

summary execution for violating religious laws such as a woman being seen outside without covering her face....

the goal area of their national soccer pitch is riddled with lead as that's where they'd lead people to kneel and be shot. don't forget the rope marks on the goal post.

i'll have a beer tonight in celebration of this shit stain motherfucker reaching room temperature. here's to ya!!!

i must say, though, i'm a BIG fan of the death of anybody that's willing to kill innocent people in the name of some god we've never seen or heard from.

I'm glad you're such a big fan of death.

How about this?, Score one for the good guys! The Taliban are the enemy. The Taliban who gave Osama bin-Laden a nice cozy little home up in the mountains. Osama bin-Laden the man who murdered 3,000 people, destroyed the World Trade Center, almost destroyed the Pentagon, destroyed four commerical airliners, destroyed two American embassies in Africa and killed hundreds doing it, severly damage the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen, and killed over a dozen American sailors, and bin-Laden also took part in many other terror attacks around the world targeting American, Israeli, French, intrest.

[randyc]

totally.

if i thought i'd actually get to take a crack at those fuckers, i'd join myself. knowing that i'd probably wind up pumping gas into tanks or running some communications shit back at the base, i'd rather not.

so, what I can do is give our troops a big round of applause and whole hearted support.

[johnny861]

Originally posted by randyc
totally.

if i thought i'd actually get to take a crack at those fuckers, i'd join myself. knowing that i'd probably wind up pumping gas into tanks or running some communications shit back at the base, i'd rather not.

so, what I can do is give our troops a big round of applause and whole hearted support.

LOL... Why am I in a submarine?! I thought I was going to be a pilot?

Deep blue yonder! Not under!