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Taliban bombers hit Afghanistan Wardak intelligence HQ
Civilian casualties are a source of tension between Afghan and Nato forces.
In February President Karzai ordered a ban on Afghan security forces calling in air strikes in residential areas after 10 civilians were allegedly killed in a Nato night attack in Kunar.
Nato troops are scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and have gradually been handing over responsibility for security to their Afghan counterparts, who now lead about 90% of all security operations.
Yet the Afghan air force has limited strength, so Nato air support is considered crucial, especially for operations in harsh terrain and mountainous areas.
Officials say that women and children were among the casualties.
The Kunar area has been the site of intense fighting between the Taliban and American and Afghan forces for much of the last 10 years.
In August 2012 a US drone attack in Kunar killed Mullah Dadullah, a high-ranking Pakistani Taliban commander. In May of that year Nato said that an air strike had killed senior al-Qaeda leader Sakhar al-Taifi in the same province.
About 1,000 Afghan civilians have been killed and more than 2,000 wounded in the first half of this year - most of them in insurgent attacks - according to the U
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Dadullah
Afghan Taliban commander (1966–2007)
For other uses, see Mullah Dadullah Front and Dadullah (Pakistani Taliban).
Dadullah (1966 – May 11, 2007) was the Taliban's most senior militant commander in Afghanistan until his death in 2007.[3] He was also known as Maulavi or MullahDadullah Akhund (Pashto: ملا دادالله آخوند). He also earned the nickname of Lang, meaning "lame" (as in Timur Lang), because of a leg he lost during fighting.[4]
An ethnic Pashtun from the Kakar tribe of Kandahar Province, he was known as "The Butcher", even among fellow Taliban members, for his brutality and outbursts of violence, notably in cutting men's heads off, as per some, even being stripped of his command at least twice by Mullah Omar due to his extreme behavior.[5]
According to the United Nations'list of entities belonging to or associated with the Al-Qaeda organization, he had been the Taliban's Minister of Construction.[6] He was killed by British and German special forces.
Early life
[edit]Dadullah belonged to the Kakar tribe of Pashtuns. Educated in a madrassa in Balochistan,[7] he was a follower of Deobandi Sunni Islam.[8] He lost a leg while fighting with the Afghan mujahideen against Soviet occupation in t