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Senior Taliban Figure Says Death of Leader Could Unify Group
Tue May 24, 2016 9:28 am
The death of the leader of the Afghan Taliban in a U.S. drone strike last week could make the insurgent movement stronger by bringing back dissident commanders and unifying the movement's ranks, a senior Afghan Taliban figure said on Tuesday.
Mullah Mohammad Ghous, a foreign minister during the Taliban's 1996-2001 rule of Afghanistan, told The Associated Press that Mullah Akhtar Mansour's death cleared the way for those who left after he became leader to return to the insurgency.
Mansour was killed on Saturday in the strike in southwestern Pakistan, just over the border from Afghanistan...............
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Mullah Mohammad Ghous, a foreign minister during the Taliban's 1996-2001 rule of Afghanistan, told The Associated Press that Mullah Akhtar Mansour's death cleared the way for those who left after he became leader to return to the insurgency.
Mansour was killed on Saturday in the strike in southwestern Pakistan, just over the border from Afghanistan...............
To read further go to this link: Â abcnews.go.com
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