Taliban leader Akhtar Mansoor
The American authorities believe that the Taliban leader Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a drone attack in Pakistan. The attack took place with the consent of President Barack Obama
As informs Reuters referring to the representative of the US authorities, as a result of drone strikes on Pakistani territory were probably killed the leader of the Afghan movement “Taliban” (banned in Russia a terrorist organization ) Mullah Akhtar Mansoor and another gunman.
The interviewee said that the blow was struck at about midnight. Several drones were aimed at a car that moved on the territory of Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan.
According to him, the impact drone authorized the US President Barack Obama.
Akhtar Mansoor was elected the leader of the Taliban in July 2015 after extremists have confirmed the death of the founder of the organization of Mullah Omar.
Mansour was in the international wanted list. According to the UN, in the 2000s he was in prison in Pakistan, and in 2006 returned to Afghanistan, where he served as the governor of Kandahar province and simultaneously organized drug trafficking in three Afghan provinces.
Some time Mansour led the so-called Ministry civil aviation in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, and after the destruction of most of the leaders of the organization has become the de facto deputy Omar. Publication New York Times indicated that he was in charge of peace talks with the current government of Afghanistan, but later knew Mansour personally declared that it on there was no negotiation.
December 28, the British newspaper Sunday Times published an article that Mansour reportedly met last year with Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked him about the weapons and aid money. The Russian Foreign Ministry about the contacts of the Russian leader posts Mansour called “absurd notions of unscrupulous journalists and analysts.
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