On Ground Updates: Afghanistan/Pakistan - October 02, 2009

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Afghanistan/Pakistan
Suspected US Drone Missile Strike Kills Key Islamist Radical With Close Ties To al-Qaeda And Taleban
Post Date: Friday, October 02, 2009
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* VOANews.com brings us the following report this Friday afternoon and it goes in part like this... Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. missile strike in South Waziristan in late August wounded Tahir Yuldashev and that he reportedly died a few days later... Yuldashev was the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan...
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Suspected US Drone Kills Top Militant in Pakistan
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* TimesOnline.co.uk reports it this way... A key Islamist radical with close ties to al-Qaeda and the Taleban is believed to have been killed by a US missile strike in north-western Pakistan, intelligence officials said today... Tahir Yuldashev, the veteran leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, was wounded by a missile fired from a US drone in the tribal region of South Waziristan on August 27 and died of his injuries a few days later, according to the officials. He was about 42-years-old... If confirmed, his death would be a significant blow to the militant groups sheltering in Pakistan’s tribal areas, just as the Pakistani army appears poised to attack their main stronghold in South Waziristan...
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US drone strike kills key al-Qaeda ally Tahir Yuldashe

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