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Daily Mail: A clean kill: Taliban commander is eliminated in a drone strike while taking a shower
* The militant - known by various names - was killed close to the Afghan border
* Pakistani police and Taliban sources have confirmed his death
* The dead commander is believed to have led Taliban fighters on multiple attacks on Afghan security forces and U.S. soldiers
* American drones have relentlessly targeted militants in the area where he died
A missile from a suspected U.S. drone killed an Afghan militant commander as he was having a shower in his village close to the Pakistani border with Afghanistan, Pakistani police and Taliban sources have said.
Nasir Mahmood - a member of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network - was in a house in Pakistan's semi-autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas when he died, senior police officer Ameer Zaman was quoted by NBC News as saying. He was also known as Ihsanullah and as Khowarai by his fighters.
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Update: Suspected U.S. drone kills Taliban-linked commander in shower (NBC)
WNU Editor: Pakistan is giving a different account on this drone strike .... U.S. and Pakistan give conflicting accounts of U.S. drone strike that killed militant leader (National Post). What's my take .... if the Americans can find this guy while he was taking a shower, I am sure the Pakistanis (if they had wanted to) would have also been able to find him.
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