Senior Taliban may be surrounded say Afghans

[maddezmom]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan and U.S. forces surrounded an area in southwestern Afghanistan on Thursday where senior commanders of elusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar could be hiding, Afghan officials said.

The operation, backed by U.S. helicopter gunships, followed a big U.S.-backed offensive that killed more than 100 militants in the same region of the border between Kandahar, Uruzgan and Zabul provinces in the past three days, the officials said.

Interior Ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal said captured guerrillas had revealed that Mullah Dadullah and Mullah Brother, both members of the Taliban leadership council led by Omar, had been in the area of the fighting at least until Tuesday.

"We have concrete reports that they were there until at least the day before yesterday," he said. "They may still be there, they could have escaped, or they could have been killed."

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more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050623/wl_nm/afghan_dc;_

sounds really concrete to me? :shrug:

[acmavm]

1. Could be, may be, whatever. Same old propaganda, different day.

And it's not like these guys aren't replacable now, is it?

[leftofcool]

2. may, might have, could have, maybe are,.....

yep, solid as a rock!

[Liberal Dose]

3. Every one of these stories should begin with, "In an effort to draw

attention away from the bunyanesque failure that is Bushco, we receive reports that (Insert distraction here)."