Chiefs Of Staff - Nato Says Kills Senior Haqqani Commander In Afghanistan Reuters

KABUL Wed Oct 5, 2011 5:31am EDT

KABUL (Reuters) - NATO-led causes fighting with Afghanistan said on Wednesday this a strong airstrike possessed put to sleep a older person commander belonging to the Taliban-linked Haqqani multi-level and also two involving his relatives throughout southern Khost province, at the Pakistan border.

Dilawar, exactly who was simply identified by simply just one name, was a "principal subordinate" to help Haji Mali Khan, which NATO captured past week and said once seemed to be that major Haqqani commander with regard to Afghanistan.

Dilawar's passing will be "another significant impairment for the insurgent group," the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) claimed in the affirmation this detailed his / her duties while such as matching blasts on Afghan causes and arranging weapons deliveries.

NATO likewise mentioned in which Dilawar served foreign militants move towards Afghanistan as well as acquired buttons using equally al Qaeda plus the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

The Afghan along with coalition push have conducted over 530 operations to disrupt Haqqani multi-level activities inside asian Afghanistan up to now this specific year, NATO said.

Around 1,400 thought Haqqani insurgents had been recently captured this kind of year, 100 considering that the start out of October alone, plus 20 network frontrunners killed, NATO said.

The Haqqani community will be considered one of a few Taliban-allied insurgent factions struggling with with Afghanistan and perhaps the nearly all anticipated some people tend to be concept to obtain introduced committing suicide bombing into the country plus be guiding several high-profile attacks.

They have sworn allegiance to this Taliban, although have always been suspected involving furthermore having ties to Pakistan's spy agency, the particular Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate.

The outgoing chairman with the U.S. Joint Chiefs associated with Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, testified before the U.S. Senate immediately after an strike for the U.S. embassy and NATO headquarters with Kabul regarded as the work of the group, how the Haqqani circle was a "veritable arm" of the actual ISI.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, exactly who heads the group, pronounces them no longer demands sanctuaries with Pakistan also it feels safe functioning in Afghanistan.

(Reporting through Zhou Xin; Editing by way of Emma Graham-Harrison )