Topic: Afghanistan War
AP News | 2010-02-09 12:08:08
An Afghan police man searches the trunk of a car, which arrived from Marjah at a check post in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Telegraphing the Marjah offensive has ...
AP News | 2010-02-10 09:02:49
Pakistani interior minister, intel official tell AP country's Taliban chief is dead
Pakistan's interior minister and a senior intelligence official say the country's Taliban chief has died. In messages to The Associated Press on Wednesday, the officials did not provide details of how or when Hakimullah Mehsud died. But it was the first time Pakistani authorities have ...
Reuters US Online Report World News | 2010-02-10 08:52:18
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Wednesday it had information suggesting that Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud had died of wounds inflicted in a U.S. drone aircraft attack in January. "I have credible information that he's dead but I don't have any confirmation," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters, as speculation swirled over the Taliban leader's fate ...
