Airstrike in Afghanistan kills Taliban commander

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

KABUL (AP) — A coalition airstrike has killed a powerful Taliban commander who broke a promise to renounce violence after village elders persuaded President Hamid Karzai to free him from prison, officials said Monday.

The Sunday night attack destroyed a building housing Ghulam Dastagir and eight other militants in the village of Darya-ye-Morghab, near the Turkmenistan border, the U.S. military said in a statement.

Dastagir was responsible for a surge in violence in the province in recent months, including a November attack on an Afghan army convoy that killed 13 soldiers, the statement said.

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Dastagir had previously been captured and imprisoned in Herat province, but he was released about four months ago after elders of his home district pleaded with Karzai and high-level officials to let him go, saying he would not return to violence, according to provincial police spokesman Noorhan Nekzad. Karzai issued a decree ordering his release.



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[MrPerson]

1. THEY GOT TEH NO. 3 GUY!!!!!!!THIS IS HUGH!!!!!11111

[paparush]

2. How many millions did that cost us?

What's our average cost per kill these days?

Why are we spending our great grandchildren's future killing these people?