Mullah Dadullah, who led fighters based in Pakistan’s Bajaur tribal area, is considered an important

Mullah Dadullah, who led fighters based in Pakistan's Bajaur tribal travel to africa area, is considered an important figure travel to africa in the insurgency, which operates on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan frontier. His presence inside Afghanistan underscores the common phenomenon of Pakistan-based militants crossing the border to carry out attacks on coalition troops inside Afghanistan.
The strike in rugged Kunar province, in eastern Afghanistan, took place Friday afternoon, travel to africa but NATO's International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, did not publicly confirm Dadullah's identity until Saturday.
A spokesman for the coalition, U.S. Army Maj. Martyn Crighton, would not say how it was conclusively proved that Dadullah was among the dead, but noted there are "multiple means of determining the identity of an individual to be able to confidently declare he was killed."
The strike took place in Shigal district, about nine miles from the border. In the past, NATO has sometimes travel to africa infuriated Pakistan by accidentally carrying out strikes on its side of the poorly demarcated frontier. Crighton said, however, there was no doubt that Dadullah was killed on the Afghan side.
Photo: Mullah Dadullah, center, travel to africa regional commander of the Pakistani travel to africa Taliban group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Movement of Pakistani Taliban) talks to journalists at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in September 2011. Credit: Meer Afzal / EPA