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May 21, 2016, 08:45:52 PM
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http://www.aljazeera.com/#

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

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May 21, 2016, 10:43:21 PM
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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

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"We are still assessing the results of the strike and will provide more information as it becomes available," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said on Saturday in a statement, which did not address Mansoor's condition.

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. Smiley

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May 21, 2016, 11:28:27 PM
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“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/

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May 22, 2016, 05:39:51 PM
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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.
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May 22, 2016, 07:05:19 PM
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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.
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Afghanistan said the attack killed Mullah Akhtar Mansour. But a Pakistani passport found at the site bears the name Wali Muhammad and the passport holder was believed to have traveled to Pakistan from Iran on the day of the attack, according to the Pakistani Foreign Ministry.



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.

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May 22, 2016, 07:23:15 PM
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Afghan National Directorate of Security wrote on Twitter.

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

Using Pakistani passport

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

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May 22, 2016, 08:48:36 PM
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Don't fool yourself. There will be no peace with these people without the complete destruction of either them or us.

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May 23, 2016, 06:17:10 PM
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Maybe when Pakistan starts controlling its borders by preventing terrorists free passage between Pakistan and Afghanistan they start paying attention to those borders.
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May 23, 2016, 09:07:40 PM
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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

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