First off, this is good news in that Sedgai is the third leader of Siraj Haqqani's forces to bite the bullet in a matter of months. Haqqani is one of the top Taliban leaders whose forces float between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Secondly here...this mention of "unknown gunmen" is odd. Let's face it, there isn't a whole lot of guys running around Pakistan offing Taliban leaders and thinking they can stay alive doing that, so if I had to take a guess here...I would say that the successful "unknown gunmen" here were either U.S. special forces inside of Pakistan or some sort of clandestine Pakistani force that doesn't want to get credited for it.
But the important thing is this chump is hamburger for the maggots and the Taliban is looking for another leader to fill the void.
Here's the full story.
US military says wanted militant killed in Pakistan
KABUL (AFP) - The US military in Afghanistan said that a Taliban-linked militant leader wanted by Washington had been killed in neighbouring Pakistan.
Darim Sedgai was ambushed by unknown gunmen on January 16 and died of his wounds, the military said in a statement.
The military described him as a "powerful commander" linked to a top Taliban leader, Siraj Haqqani, but did not provide any further details of the incident.
The US military here reportedly announced a 50,000-dollar bounty for Sedgai in October last year, saying he was wanted for his ties to Taliban and Al-Qaeda militant groups.
Sedgai was the third rebel commander in Haqqani's network to die in recent months, the statement said.
Haqqani, the son of famous anti-Russian commander Jalaluddin Haqqani, joined the Taliban during their advance towards Kabul in 1996 and is their top commander in eastern Afghanistan. He has a 200,000 dollar bounty on his head.
An alliance of Afghan opposition groups and US-led forces overthrew the 1996-2001 Taliban regime when it did not surrender Al-Qaeda leaders after the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
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