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| Afghanistan |
| "Top leaders" iced in raids |
| 2001-10-11 |
Some of the Taliban's top leaders were reportedly killed in the first wave of bombings on Afghanistan on Sunday night. The deaths of some of the regime's leaders was claimed in "highly credible" reports American intelligence received from the country, it is claimed. An anonymous senior official said those killed included two "adult male" relatives of Mullah Omar, the spiritual leader of the regime. American Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said earlier this week that one of Mullah Omar's compounds had been a target of the initial wave of strikes. Omar is himself related to Osama bin Laden, the al Qaida leader whose organisation is a target of the raids, as two of their children are married. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |