LONDON and PESHAWAR, Pakistan, April 16, 2008
Infamous Taliban Leader Killed In Pakistan
Mullah Ismail Revered By Militants For Shooting Down U.S. Chinook In 2005, Killing 16 Special Forces
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A senior Taliban commander who became a hero to Islamic militants for his role in shooting down a U.S. helicopter in 2005, killing all 16 special forces troops aboard, has been killed by Pakistani security forces, officials and Taliban militants tell CBS News.
Mullah Ismail, a notorious Taliban commander from the Afghan province of Kunar, was killed in a shootout with Pakistani police as he traveled with a kidnapped trader, a local police officer said Wednesday. He was apparently on his way into the lawless Northwest Frontier Province along the Afghan border.
Officer Mukarma Khan said Ismail, also known as Mullah Ahmad Shah, had kidnapped the trader from a camp for Afghan refugees in Pakistan and was trying to transport him back to the border when he failed to stop at the checkpoint. He apparently opened fire on the police and was killed in the following exchange of gunfire.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed the death of the key commander and said he was a prominent Taliban figure in the area.
Abdul Jalal Jalal, chief of police in Afghanistan's Kunar province, where Ismail was based, told CBS News that he was also aware about the militant's death in Pakistan. He described him as the "most wanted terrorist in Kunar province."
A Taliban sub-commander in Kunar province, who spoke on condition of anonymity, would not confirm the killing. But he told CBS News Ismail's death "would be a full-scale blow." He praised Ismail for the shooting down of the Chinook in 2005.
Ismail was also said to be a key facilitator of al Qaeda militants in the region - many of whom come from outside southeast Asia and do not speak the local languages. According to Taliban sources, Osama bin Laden personally honored Ismail's authority in the area after the Chinook attack in a letter sent through an intermediary.
Police chief Jalal said Ismail and the militants under his command were behind many attacks on NATO, U.S. and Afghan forces in the northeastern part of Afghanistan.
Ismail became a hero for al Qaeda and the Taliban after his group hit a U.S. Navy MH-47 Chinook helicopter in late June 2005, apparently with a shoulder-fired rocket. The helicopter was one of four aircraft ferrying special forces into the area on a reconnaissance mission.
It was considered a lucky shot from an inaccurate weapon; but it left eight Navy SEALs and eight Army air crew from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment dead. Read report from June 30, 2005.
It was the deadliest single attack on U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the invasion to topple the Taliban in 2001.
The Chinook was shot down as it ferried troops into the region to search for four Navy SEALs who had gone missing in the area in late June. Three of the men were found dead, but one, who was wounded, managed to escape - read report from July 3, 2005 - to a local home, where he was hidden from the Taliban and eventually rescued by U.S. forces.
On Wednesday, Afghan shepherd Gulab Khan, who says he's the one who saved the life of the only surviving SEAL, told CBS News that Mullah Ismail attacked his village the day after the helicopter was shot down, searching for any survivors.
Khan said he protected the SEAL, but his actions brought death threats from Ismail and his militants, which prompted the shepherd to relocate his entire family to the provincial capital. He described Ismail as the most powerful militant in Kunar province.
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See all 88 CommentsOh boy - the Republican Senators will be partying with their Pages tonight!
Chalk one up for the Republicans - 3 Trillion Dollars and ONE dead Terrorist!
Posted by libagenda
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Yes - the troops are brave - but they''re being lead by incompetent idiots of the Republican Party - just look at the mess in this country.
And, YES, we have killed more then one terrorist BUT - in the process more then a MILLION innocent people have been killed by the Coalition of the Willing!
Ya Boy, that shows how dumb or bullet proof he thought he was. It was not a trader he was kidnapping but a traitor. His last words were "Oh great Allah, shield me from the infidels bulleee......" Allah had better plans for this miserable pig in human body. Down to Satan he goes with all his terrorist and murderous kind. Victory for Allah!
Posted by watcher269 at 10:50 AM : Apr 16, 2008
Most civilian deaths have been caused by Alqeda in Iraq or rival factions...not by the US or coalition forces. Your 1 million figure is also highy exagerated....libtard.
We are using the "Dirty War" tactics used in Argentina and Algeria...Italy with OPERATION GLADIO and other places...like Ireland.
The attacks against civilians only benefit the US as it tends to make Americans believe that we are needed there to ''protect'' Iraqis. We saw Phil Berg leave official American custody in Iraq and immediately end up in the hands of the unofficial American custody of al Qaeda...where he was taken by fat guys wearing jewelry to his beheading video in an Abu Ghraib-like background complete with English voices in the background.
Posted by jamesm12341 at 12:38 PM : Apr 16, 2008
DOOFUS follower, you should be concerned about how YOU think.
And all the US nosepicking, bedwetting libs observed a moment of silence. Since this loser was killed by *** forces, CBS decided to publish the story.
Posted by LibH8er at 01:21 PM : Apr 16, 2008
Rebuttal:
Libh8er are another conservative, out of many on these boards, who has chosen to fight a safe enemy, his fellow countrymen, an "enemy" that can''t hurt him, from behind the safety of his keyboard (for that added bit of protection).
Meanwhile, US troops made up of self-sacrificing Americans from all political and cultural walks of life, very much including those liberals that Libh8er so despises, have gone to Afghanistan as well as Iraq to actually fight the real war, dodging real enemy bullets. These troops do so to maintain the freedoms of this country, to keep the freedoms for people like Libh8er so he can continue to trash fellow Americans from behind the anonymity of his keyboard in safety.
Thing is...I didn''t know the right to hate was one of the freedoms our troops are fighting and dying for.
I propose that these words of Libh8er may be carved into one of the new 4000 grave headstones risen since the War on Terror started, so that the parents of these dead soldiers can see what their kids died for, died so that people like Libh8er can post hateful, pointless, and untrue comments about fellow citizens here, over political affiliation.
Signed, a liberal that served.
NOW WE NEED TO GET RID OF THE BUSHIT AND CHENEY IDIOTS ON WAR CRIMES TRIALS ALONG WITH THEIR ISRAELI NEOCONS!
AMERICA STAND UP OR SHUT UP!
Posted by jamesm12341 at 01:02 PM : Apr 16, 2008
No, the politically correct way would be not to call another human being names. That is why conservatives hate political correctness.
AND THE PEOPLE LEADING OUR TROOPS SURE ARE NOT STUPID OR INCOMPETENT. THE MILLION PEOPLE YOU QUOTE MAY OR MAY NOT BE RIGHT, BUT THAT IS THE BAD PART OF A WAR. INNOCENT PEOPLE DIE BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO CONTROL OVER WHAT IS GOING ON.
AND I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH libagenda BELOW
Spoiled rotten liberal brat!
Posted by libagenda
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Yes - the troops are brave - but they''''re being lead by incompetent idiots of the Republican Party - just look at the mess in this country.
And, YES, we have killed more then one terrorist BUT - in the process more then a MILLION innocent people have been killed by the Coalition of the Willing!
Posted by watcher269 at 10:50 AM : Apr 16, 2008
Well, this is GOOD news for a change.
I hope the 72 virgins awaiting him are Catholic nuns armed with AK47s.
Or, maybe 72 GUYS with names like Bruno, or Bubba...
lol
notblue, respectfully. If you read your post, it is you who has come on these boards and made vague unsubstantiated generalizations about liberals.
You have heard me say America needs conservatives for a fair and balanced government. America doesn''t need conservatives like Bush/Cheney/Rove/Gonzales that do your party horrible injustice.
And I don''t blame them for everything. I of course don''t blame Bush for hurricanes but I sure as helll do regarding the fact that we have spent more US taxpayer dollars on reconstructing Iraq than New Orleans.
I do believe you are a concerned conservative, but if you had any real interest in politics, you would try saving your own party from the criminals that have stolen it from you.
We liberals have enough to do, fighting against the spread of war, rabid over-development and loss of the environment, polluted drinking water and climate change, dismantling of civil liberties, and increase in the plight of America''s poor. The entire planet no longer has time for these stupid Limbaugh games.
And notblue, if you conservatives can''t even clean up your own party and politics, you aren''t qualified to tell liberals what''s wrong with theirs.
Again, respectfully.
Careful with noclue. He''s a wannabe soldier who never served due to a boil on his butt like his hero ********! You''re correct, he''s real tuff behind his keyboard just like his Goomba libh8r, another hard a ss who served only in his mind! Perhaps a summer vaca in Basra would be suitable for these tuff guys! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha............ From another Lib who served his Country during Viet Nam ''65-''67.
And no I won''t give these guys anything RESPECTIVELY! They''re all old cowards who say they would have served if only......
Posted by dogsoul
And to you on the loss of your so called soul, Dipstick!!!
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Posted by AaaBee at 03:33 PM : Apr 16, 2008
Iraq is a country, New Orleans is a city.
Another thing, New Orleans is in a "flood zone", it is againist the FEMA regulations to use government money to rebuild in a flood zone.
(I still like him though. He comes up with some great stuff at times.)
The reason I try to be respectful is because between Rush Limbaugh''s hate retoric being smeared across America like rancid butter and Bush''s neglect of this country in his race for some vague romantic idea of Victory in war lies half an entire nation of decent hard-working Repulicans that have been sold WAY down the road by these two. It is to them, and I include notblue in this, that I give my respect.
If We, the People ever plan to mend this nation once Bush is gone and once more become One Nation, Under God like our money sez, we have got to get back to giving one another a little respect.
Posted by AaaBee at 03:33 PM : Apr 16, 2008
Iraq is a country, New Orleans is a city.
Another thing, New Orleans is in a "flood zone", it is againist the FEMA regulations to use government money to rebuild in a flood zone. "
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New Orleans is part of the US, Iraq isn''t.
Posted by newsjunky5 at 04:28 PM : Apr 16, 2008
My point is, Iraq is the size of California; naturally, if you are going to rebuild a country, it will cost more than a city.
Lousiana and New Orleans, three years later, should be the ones blamed for not rebuilding, or at least deciding what they will and what they will not rebuild of the city.
YEEEEEE HAAAAAAA!!!!
GIVE ME 2 MORE POINTS ON MY APROVAL RATEING...
HANG IN THEIR CHIMP YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED IN PUSHING THIS MESS OFF ON ANOTHER ADMINISTRATION!
AMERICA STAND UP OR SHUT UP!
START WAR CRIMES TRIALS NOW!
Actually for once you''re correct. In fact I just had one in your honor and I named it noclue!! Perhaps you''re correct tho, try posting something yourself other than your blather regarding your super patriotism!
I believe it because it is patently obvious that liberals would gladly, eagerly - yes desperately yearn for ANY setback for the United States while a Republican occupies the White House - whether that be a successful terrorist attack or an economic downturn - so that they can use it as leverage against the opposition party...
In fact, just observe whenever any good news or progress gets reported (a rarity from the liberal mass media) - you can literally see, read & feel liberals start to squirm.... they LOATHE any success against this nation''s enemies while it can in any way be attributed to conservative lead efforts...
That is why liberals are traitors to this great nation - who they have backstabbed at every opportunity since the late 1940s...
Liberals - lending support to America''s enemies since 1948
Posted by dogsoul
Strangely enough I seldom see any lib downplaying events such as this other than in your fantasy mind. You''ve NEVER seen me not celebrating another terrorist biting bthe dust. So take your self righteous c rap and stuff it. Noh, nah, nah,...I''m more patriotic than you!!
You know I used to feel like you but after the super patriots (sans service themselves) have been bashing us libs like during Nam I''ve cut the cord and lost all civility in dealing with these as sholes. In fact I have a collection of ammo engraved with all the a holes names . I don''t believe we can fix what georgie boy f*k''d up. I believe we''re headed for a second revolution and the conservatives are in for a surprise. All liberals are not pacifists!
Posted by dogsoul
Sorry but we just followed your examples. You dipshits are still dissing FDR.
Posted by downsteamjim
You know what happens when you''re downstream MORON? Hang tight, I''m sending you a BM now! Another one of you super patriots shooting off your worthless mouth!!!
Posted by downsteamjim
Still higher than yours. MSEE BTW! Just tired of your assumptions. Let''s see Ronnie the R etard refused to go after the bombers of the Marine barracks so by your definition he''s an enemy apologist. I wanted to go after the b astards. I would have blown up every terrorist camp in the ME on 9/12 with low yield thermonuclear devices. I don''t believe in attacking those however that did not attack us (Iraq). We have matched Hitler''s march into Poland in ''39 for preemptive BS. A course I might add that was advocated by a group of DRAFT DODGERS from Viet Nam (Iraq)!!!
No...but we''d probably be fixing Chicago and Los Angeles once Al Qaida realized we had no spine to take the fight to them.
First - liberals ARE a fascist fanatical group - just try disagreeing with them some time - or as they would say, ''hating''...
And yes, liberals DO hate Christians - And many hate Israeli Jews - that much they''ve repeatedly made obvious...
Can''t say as I''ve heard them come out against Muslims much - heaven''s no - that''d be BIGOTRY - that''d be ''hate''...
In fact, I''d say liberals are member of the godless church of liberalism - it''s a dogma, a cult if you will... and it''s every bit as dangerous as radical Islam with whom they have allied themselves in a fight against Bush...
Liberals - supporting our nation''s enemies since 1948
Hey AJMarine...baby
I actually can''t for the life of me figure out why anyone would have built there anyways. Or for that matter were even ALLOWED to build there in the first place. I realize that they would want to return now because it was their home but do they want to have to go through all this again?
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