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Behind the News: Mullah Dadullah

May 14, 2007 10:41 AM ET | Permanent Link | Print

A Taliban spokesman has acknowledged the death of the militant group's top commander in Afghanistan, Mullah Dadullah in a statement boasting that the group will continue its attacks on U.S. troops, the AP reports.

For a closer look at who Dadullah was and what role he played in the Taliban, see Chief Investigative Correspondent David E. Kaplan's profile of the terrorist leader, whom he calls "brutal even by Afghan standards," written in January for the U.S. News Bad Guys Blog.

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