Sunday, May 22, 2016

TALIBAN LEADER MULLAH AKHTAR MANSOUR GETS TOAST BY A DRONE STRIKE AS THE AFGHAN WAR MOVES ON EVEN AFTER THE MISSION ACCOMPLISHED RHETORIC FROM THE POTUS BHO CHAOS BACK IN 2008 - AS THE DEMOCRAT BUG OUT CAMPAIGN HAS NOT BROUGHT REAL FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE TO END THE TERRORISTS INSTEAD THE CHICKEN HAS COME TO ROAST THE DEMOCRAT LAME DUCK IN OFFICE

Dramatic photographs have emerged of the bodies of Afghan Taliban boss Mullah Akhtar Mansour and his driver after the pair were killed a targeted drone strike authorized by Barack Obama.
The images show two bodies - believed to be that of Mansour and the driver of the car - after they were pulled from vehicle wreckage at the weekend.
However, it is not clear which body is that of Mansour. The images show the badly burned feet of one man, while another body is unidentifiable inside a wooden coffin.
Both the Taliban and the Afghanistan Government have now confirmed his death after he was killed travelling in a remote area of the border with Pakistan.
Earlier in the day Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah had said that Mansour was '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.'
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking in Myanmar today, repeatedly referred to Mansour in the past tense.
Mansour, he said 'posed a continuing imminent threat to U.S. personnel in Afghanistan, Afghan civilians, Afghan security forces' and members of the U.S./NATO coalition.
He said the air strike on Mansour 'sends a clear message to the world that we will continue to stand with our Afghan partners'.
'Peace is what we want, Mansur was a threat to that effort,' Kerry said. 'He also was directly opposed to peace negotiations and to the reconciliation process. It is time for Afghans to stop fighting and to start building a real future together.'
It remains unclear what the role was of the second man killed in the car. The Pentagon initially called him a fellow 'combatant', but officials told AFP he was a civilian who worked for a local rental company.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3602691/Head-Taliban-Afghanistan-likely-killed-airstrike.html

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