Word: dadullah
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...senior U.S. counterterrorism official told TIME. Indeed, the central role of NATO in fighting the Taliban-Qaeda alliance in Afghanistan has also raised the incentive for the jihadists to strike at Germany, France and Britain. A recent jihadist video recorded on June 9 depicted a senior Taliban commander, Mansoor Dadullah, presiding over a "graduation ceremony" for some 300 would-be suicide bombers. Dadullah makes clear their targets will be in countries that have sent troops to Afghanistan: "These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to Afghanistan from faraway places," he says on the video. "Why shouldn...
...latest victory in the war on terrorism took place on the night of May 11 in Helmand province, Afghanistan. U.S. intelligence had tracked Mullah Dadullah, thought to be the Taliban's top guerrilla commander, to a location near the border with Pakistan. By all accounts, what happened next was a model of surgical counterterrorism. When it was over, the Americans delivered Dadullah's corpse to Afghan authorities, who draped it in hot-pink sheets and displayed it for photographers in Kandahar, a ghoulish ritual that now attends the killing of any high-value terrorist target...
...celebration, like so many in this grinding global conflict with the jihadists, was short-lived. NATO's press release went out of its way to say that Dadullah "will most certainly be replaced in time." It didn't take that long: four days after the strike, the Taliban's leader, Mullah Omar, announced that Dadullah would be succeeded by his brother. Dadullah was uniquely abhorrent, a one-legged mastermind of suicide bombings and beheadings who had earned the nickname Afghanistan's Zarqawi. But his death won't likely damage the Taliban any more than Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's liquidation...
...what should be done? In the U.S., Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have called for sending some of the troops they hope to pull out of Iraq to Afghanistan instead. But that's a misguided strategy. The raid on Dadullah took place in the same area where a U.S. air strike had killed at least 21 Afghan civilians earlier in the week. Since the beginning of March, more than 130 Afghan civilians have been killed by U.S. and NATO forces. Even among those predisposed to support the West, the mounting loss of life is engendering anger that...
...major setback for the Taliban, which has been fighting to regain power, its lead military commander, Mullah Dadullah, was fatally shot in a joint operation by U.S., NATO and Afghan forces. He is the third top Taliban leader to be killed in the past six months...