U.S. Drone Strike Kills Islamic State Recruiter In Afghanistan

CNN: ISIS recruiter, once freed from Gitmo by U.S., killed in drone strike in Afghanistan

(CNN) He was a Taliban commander captured by the United States and held at Guantanamo Bay. But he was let go and returned to Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Rauf went on to become a recruiter for ISIS in Afghanistan.

He was killed in a drone strike Monday, two officials told CNN.

Rauf and five others were killed, four of them Pakistani militants, said Mohammed Jan Rasoulya, the deputy governor of southern Helmand province. A senior Afghan security source confirmed Rauf's death.

WNU Editor: I have no proof .... but a part of me wonders if it was the Taliban themselves who fingered him for a U.S. drone strike.

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