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| Barack Obama Hails Taliban Leader's |
| Barack Obama Hails Taliban Leader's Killing As Insurgents Seek Successor
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 24-May-2016
11:42:26 AM |
| President Barack Obama on Monday hailed the killing of Taliban chief Mullah Mansour Akhtar as an "important milestone" in efforts to bring peace to Afghanistan, as the rattled insurgent group held emergency meetings to pick his successor.
Saturday's drone strike, the first known American assault on a top Afghan Taliban leader on Pakistani soil, sent a shockwave through the rebel group, which had seen a new resurgence under Mansour.
"We have removed the leader of an organisation that has continued to plot against and unleash attacks on American and Coalition forces, to wage war against the Afghan people, and align itself with extremist groups like Al-Qaeda," the US president said in a statement.
The Pentagon on Monday said Mansour represented a "specific imminent threat" to US and coalition forces in Afghanistan, and that the strike was not a sign that the United States was re-engaging the group militarily following the end of its combat mission in 2015.
Obama, who is on a three-day visit to Vietnam, said Mansour had rejected efforts "to seriously engage in peace talks and end the violence that has taken the lives of countless innocent Afghan men, women and children".
He called on the Taliban's remaining leadership to engage in peace talks as the "only real path" to ending the attritional conflict
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