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Story is just developing thought it would interesting to look into or flesh out more news on this.

Taliban denies leader killed in US drone strike
Taliban's Akhtar Mansoor and another fighter were targeted by a US drone strike in remote area of Pakistan.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/taliban-leader-killed-drone-strike-160521204020111.html


Getting closer to confirmation,you would think the Taliban getting on the lines and finding out if this is true or not does not help them for target locations. :)

“I’d give them the benefit of the doubt and say they think they have in fact killed the Taliban leader. The question is, ‘What’s the point?’ What’s the military point? Fifteen years since the start of the US invasion in October 2001, more of Afghanistan today is under control of the Taliban than it was then,” Brian Becker, of the anti-war ANSWER coalition, told RT. 

Becker believes that targeted killings are “not going to bring an end to the war,” but indeed the opposite.

“It seems to me that the United States by arrogating to itself the decision who lives and who dies within Afghanistan or amongst the Taliban leadership is fact is snuffing out any prospect for a peaceful negotiated settlement,” Becker argued.

Becker noted that Mansour, in fact, claimed that he was open to negotiations after stepping in as the militant group’s head, so his killing makes little sense militarily.

“It means that they [the US] are opting for endless war in Afghanistan, something the American people don’t support,” Becker surmised.

Mansour had required the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan as a precondition for entering peace talks with the Afghan government – something Becker believes “will be the position of almost all of the Afghan Taliban leadership.”

https://www.rt.com/news/343964-taliban-afghan-leader-killed-airstrike/ (https://www.rt.com/news/343964-taliban-afghan-leader-killed-airstrike/)

fake news its not confirmed yet,locals saying that the man killed in drone attack was wali and he looks like mansoor.no confirmation from Taliban leadership yet.wali who belongs to quetta city killed in that attack.

Its not fake news when I state it is developing and likely,these words do not state absolute fact.
But to add to the dynamics the States must have been pretty sure they had the right guy to go into Pakistan's
air space with the drone.

Pakistan says U.S. drone strike violated its sovereignty
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-taliban-idUSKCN0YC0P6

Pakistan on Sunday accused the United States of violating its sovereignty with a drone strike against the leader of the Afghan Taliban in a remote border area just inside Pakistan.

It always takes time to confirm these things and I believe there are plenty of dynamics involved that could slow down the confirmation. One being Pakistan needs to save face and will road block many aspects to show the difficulty in going around them in the future.
Problem being that Osama was right under their nose the whole time and they supposedly have the worlds top spy agency,so something does not add up.

Afghan National Directorate of Security wrote on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/NDSAfghanistan/status/734307471125319680 (https://twitter.com/NDSAfghanistan/status/734307471125319680)

Using Pakistani passport

https://twitter.com/hashtag/AkhtarMansoor?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Don't fool yourself. There will be no peace with these people without the complete destruction of either them or us.

Maybe when Pakistan starts controlling its borders by preventing terrorists free passage between Pakistan and Afghanistan they start paying attention to those borders.

Pakistan have its own (terrorist) people involved, some freelancers also.

http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/Pakistan/terroristoutfits/group_list.htm (http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/Pakistan/terroristoutfits/group_list.htm)