From The New York Times:KABUL, Afghanistan — Before he was killed over the weekend, it was not always easy to track the ways that Maulavi Ghulam Dastagir had become an acute shame to the Afghan government.
He was a Taliban commander who had helped upend what was once a relatively peaceful area in the northwest, near the Turkmenistan border — helping give the lie to the idea that the Taliban controlled only the south and east.
Three months ago, he pulled off one of his most audacious raids, destroying an Afghan Army convoy and killing at least 13 men in a battle that ended only when helicopter gunships arrived to reinforce the 200 besieged Afghan soldiers and police.
But it was not the ambush in and of itself that made Mr. Dastagir famous across Afghanistan.
He was a Taliban commander who had helped upend what was once a relatively peaceful area in the northwest, near the Turkmenistan border — helping give the lie to the idea that the Taliban controlled only the south and east.
Three months ago, he pulled off one of his most audacious raids, destroying an Afghan Army convoy and killing at least 13 men in a battle that ended only when helicopter gunships arrived to reinforce the 200 besieged Afghan soldiers and police.
But it was not the ambush in and of itself that made Mr. Dastagir famous across Afghanistan.
Read more ....
Update: US troops kill Taliban's shadow governor for Badghis province -- Long War Journal
My Comment: One more bad guy gone .... good riddance.
Three months ago, he pulled off one of his most audacious raids, destroying an Afghan Army convoy and killing at least 13 men in a battle that ended only when helicopter gunships arrived to reinforce the 200 besieged Afghan soldiers and police.
But it was not the ambush in and of itself that made Mr. Dastagir famous across Afghanistan.
Read more ....
Update: US troops kill Taliban's shadow governor for Badghis province -- Long War Journal
My Comment: One more bad guy gone .... good riddance.