Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
May 25, 2016
Afghan authorities claimed security forces killed a senior Taliban commander they identified as the “shadow governor” of the southern province of Helmand.
The Taliban denied the report, which came days after Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur was killed by a U.S. airstrike in southwestern Pakistan.
Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor of Helmand, said Mullah Muzamel had died of injuries sustained during an air strike in Marjah district late on May 22.
“First he was wounded and later that night he died of his wounds,” Zwak said.
Interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said in a tweet that Muzamel had been killed in a special forces operation along with two of his commanders, Qari Feda Mohammad and Mulawi Hamid.
However Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman for southern Afghanistan, denied the report.
Ahmadi said the shadow governor for Helmand’s name is Haji Mullah Abdul Manan Akhund and that person is safe.
“No official has been killed or wounded in Helmand,” he said.
Helmand, the region that grows most of Afghanistan’s opium crop, is mostly under Taliban control but government forces have launched an offensive to retake lost ground.
Based on reporting by Reuters and dpa
Copyright (c) 2016. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036.
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Traditionally, it has been the strong streaks of independent religious sentiments inside Afghanistan that kept villages, towns and cities free from complete dominations from the thuggery and hegemony of foreign aggressors for more than two hundred years- the highly-mobilized invaders experienced their utter failures several times since early 1800’s when they began declaring numerous,(direct or indirect), unilateral states of wars on the peripheries or/and inside the borders of Afghanistan.
That is the reason, due to their prior first hand experience and historical knowledge, that they are so earnestly working for a special ideal deal in light of an extremely rare opportunity to neutralize the strong religious affiliations, and their supporting institutions. They are focusing on defeating and controlling the very core of the religious powerful religious cadre in the region.
That is why, If the local and national religious leaders are not up to their line of political expectations and exploitations, they would be prevented, one way or another, from attaining the key social and political.positions.
That is the critical reality of the grim situation that we are facing in Afghanistan today- the savage foreign plotters and invaders want to control and call the shots on all aspects of the important social and political affairs of the country as they wish- which in the process, will mean automatic down grade in the status of the original residents, as second class citizens in their own country.
That is why the invaders are so extremely anxious and so extremely persistent in their unrealistic demand to forcefully bring the strong religious leaderships and institutions under their firm economic, military and political control- just like the successful political dominance that they have achieved and established over the political and social affairs of the Christian and Jewish leadership and institutions, now for a long long time, in the US and Europe.
The western religious establishments are totally dependent and are all dancing to the harsh drum beats of their megalomaniacs; arrogant political party leaderships and bosses who are , are themselves slavishly deferring to the whims of the mega-cooperation and super-rich. That is why you don’t hear any sincere words of even simple sympathy, from the Christian and Jewish leaderships, to the plight of tens of millions of Muslims who have been suffering the brunt and ravages of the invasions and have had been especially ever since subjected to so extreme additional forms of savage negative propagandas and outright humiliations.
The Western leaders have never made any sincere peaceful overture, (at the international level ), other than fierce military responses; fake peace conferences and empty promises, to reconcile and open up respectful dialogues with the Islamic countries; especially since the Second World War- in spite of tremendous increase in close international interactions of all sorts and close diplomatic relations across all of the continents.
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* WARMONGERS, MEGALOMANIACS AND PARASITIC INTEREST GROUPS WILL KEEP COMMITTING THEIR CRIMES, AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL, IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE WORLD, AS LONG AS THEY COULD GET AWAY WITH IMPUNITY.
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