VOA: Afghan Intelligence: Afghan Taliban Leader Killed in US Drone Strike
ISLAMABAD/PENTAGON — The Afghan intelligence agency NDS confirmed that Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan near the Afghan border.
A brief NDS statement released Sunday on its official Twitter and Facebook accounts said, “Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in the airstrike yesterday at 3:45 p.m. in Dalbandin, Baluchistan.”
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday during a visit to Myanmar that Mansoor was targeted because he posed "an imminent threat to U.S. personnel, Afghan civilians and Afghan security forces," and that Mansoor "was directly opposed to peace negotiations."
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WNU Editor: Apparently the body has been retrieved.
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