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[ Register or Signin to view external links. ] spy agency has confirmed that Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed, after the US targeted him in a drone strike.

The drone targeted his vehicle in a remote area of south-west Pakistan, near the Afghan border, on Saturday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Mansour had posed "a continuing, imminent threat to US personnel".

Mansour assumed the leadership in July 2015, replacing Taliban founder and spiritual head Mullah Mohammad Omar.

The Afghan National Security Directorate (NDS) said on Sunday that Mansour had been killed in the Dalbandi area of Balochistan province - the first official confirmation of the killing of the Taliban leader.Source
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Yeah that on the news, that's good but it isn't going to stop altogether sadly.
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While I understand the necessity of this news, this is pointless, besides some semblance of justice or retribution.
Eliminating the leader of a militant group is not comparable to a dictator being eliminated.

When a dictator is eliminated their particular ideals and methods are removed and will be replaced by another individual's ideals and methods which may or may not be worse than their predecessor.
When a leader of a militant group - like the Taliban, or ISIS - is eliminated their ideals and methods are not removed.
They are inherited by the next person along the chain of command.

This is quite an easy concept to grasp so I do not mean to belabor the point, but their successor will be rising out of the same ideology as them.

The Hydra is the near perfect analogy for these groups. If you cut one head off, another grows back in its place.
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I honestly don't even believe anything I read in the news anymore until I have seen it personally or there's pictures to back it up.

As wordcraft said, if he is dead, another person will soon replace him and nothing will have changed.
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Motivational wrote I honestly don't even believe anything I read in the news anymore until I have seen it personally or there's pictures to back it up.

As wordcraft said, if he is dead, another person will soon replace him and nothing will have changed.


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Afghan officials confirmed he was killed in the strike.
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Lavish wrote
Motivational wrote I honestly don't even believe anything I read in the news anymore until I have seen it personally or there's pictures to back it up.

As wordcraft said, if he is dead, another person will soon replace him and nothing will have changed.


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Afghan officials confirmed he was killed in the strike.


The passenger thought to be Mansour had a passport under the name Wali Muhammad and was returning from Iran, it said. He had yet to be formally identified, Pakistan said.


It said the strike had "probably" killed Mansour and an armed male combatant travelling with him.


One unnamed Taliban commander told Reuters: "We heard about these baseless reports, but this not first time. Just wanted to share with you my own information that Mullah Mansour has not been killed."


A man claiming to be Mansour met former Afghan President Hamid Karzai for peace talks in 2010 - but it later emerged he was an imposter


So you see a picture of a burning car and you believe they killed him? Where are the bodies? How do you even begin to identify the bodies? How did they hit a moving car so prescisly? He just looks like any other taliban, so I have no idea how they would even begin to identify him in a drone.

Maybe I'm just extremely skeptical when it comes to these things but I don't see much proof except a photo of a burning car.
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Motivational wrote How did they hit a moving car so prescisly?


With technology dating back to the 1960s. Heat seeking missiles do exactly what the name entails.
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Lavish wrote
Motivational wrote I honestly don't even believe anything I read in the news anymore until I have seen it personally or there's pictures to back it up.

As wordcraft said, if he is dead, another person will soon replace him and nothing will have changed.


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Afghan officials confirmed he was killed in the strike.


Didn't the UN and Pakistan have trouble confirming his death though? So much so that the UN is claiming they have no confirmation and Pakistan can't confirm the kill and now is going as far to criticise the US behind it and claiming "it's against international law."
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Read about this a few days ago, we already know he's going to be replaced by the next senior member but still, kill em all.
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As the saying goes cut off one head two more will take its place in sense its just a never ending cycle there's always someone crazier
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