US Report on Killing Taliban Leader

World | December 23, 2006, Saturday // 00:00

U.S. forces said on Saturday they had killed a senior member of the Taliban's inner circle. Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, the man leading fighting in the south where the mounting insurgency is strongest, was killed on December 19 in Helmand province, coalition forces spokesman Colonel Tom Collins said. Osmani and two other guerrillas were killed in an air strike near the Pakistan border, h owever, a purported Taliban spokesman denied the claim.

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