Pakistani local residents gather around a burning vehicle hit by a U.S. drone strike, May 21, 2016. Afghan Taliban Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was the target of the drone near Dalbandin, Baluchistan, Pakistan.
VOA: Who Gave Info that Led to Drone Strike on Taliban Leader?
WASHINGTON — Days after a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan, near the Afghan border, killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, it remains unclear how the slain leader’s location was discovered.
Mansoor was killed in a remote part of Baluchistan, a province that has been thought off limits for U.S. drones, which operate in the northwestern tribal areas.
However, U.S. officials say the strike does not signal a change in American strategy or an expansion of the CIA’s decade-long drone campaign targeting terrorists inside Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas.
“This was a target of opportunity,” one U.S. official said who declined to be identified when speaking on background. “It does not suggest that we were changing our strategy.”
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WNU Editor: Someone gave the lead to the U.S. to conduct this drone strike .... but who and how .... the fact that no details on what lead to this drone strike have been released tells me that there is more to this story than what is revealed .... and here is an easy prediction .... the U.S. is not going to reveal how they knew that Mullah Mansoor was in that car on that street and at that time of day.
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