NATO has really been successful over the last few months in killing top level Taliban leaders. I am amazed by the number of these leaders who have been taken out by NATO air strikes but I am equally amazed by the ability of the Taliban to bounce back.
Attacks by the Taliban on allied troops has not abated over the last months which is another amazing fact. They have got to be reeling from their losses but one of the marks of a good fighting force is that you can’t easily beat them into submission.
The two who were killed are Qari Latif and Mullah Akhtar. Mr Latif was responsible among other things for a raid an a US aid program. Mr Akhtar was responsible for assisting in the smuggling of Taliban fighters into Afghanistan.
Mr Latif was killed in an air strike which was based on intelligence from Afghan civilians. this underscores the benefits of what our military leaders have been attempting to do in Afghanistan. The focus on winning the hearts of the civilian population is the thing which gives the civilian population the confidence in the our custom military ring customers that causes them to provide this type of intelligence.
Mr Akhtar was killed in a fire fight with Afghan policemen. Both of these events took place in Northern Afghanistan.
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