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Taliban's top operational commander killed-official
13 May 2007 04:16:20 GMT
Source: Reuters
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KABUL, May 13 (Reuters) - The Taliban's top operational commander, Mullah Dadullah, has been killed in Afghanistan, security officials said on Sunday.

The officials did not have details of where and when Dadullah was killed.

"Mullah Dadullah has been killed and his body is in Kandahar," one official told Reuters.

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Lawyers chant anti-Musharraf slogans during an anti-government rally in Lahore May 17, 2007. At least 40 people were killed and 150 wounded in Pakistan's worst political street violence on May 12 when suspended chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was due to address lawyers in Karachi.


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