NATO officials say they killed a high-profile leader in the Haqqani network, Sher Mohammad Hakimi, in an air strike that was launched at some point on Sunday. Officials say Hakimi was sitting under a tree at the time.
If you’ve never heard the name Sher Mohammad Hakimi, you’re not alone. Like so many other posthumously promoted “leaders,” Hakimi appears to have never been mentioned once in any of the myriad comments about the Haqqanis over the past several years.
The Haqqani network, also called the Haqqani family, is an extremely insular militant faction with deep criminal interests whose leadership consists almost entirely of relatives of leader Jalaluddin Haqqani, and has been blamed for a number of attacks by NATO, even when other groups claimed credit.
And indeed Logar Province, in Afghanistan’s east, is fairly far afield of Haqqani network’s usual stomping grounds, in the area around Pakistan’s North Waziristan Agency. Though it wouldn’t be unheard of for them to be active anywhere in Afghanistan, it would be unusual for them to deploy a top leader so far outside of their comfort zone.
So NATO uses our tax payers' money to launch air strikes to kill a single men under a tree. Now the question I ask myself is how did they manage to recognise him from the air if he was sitting under a tree?
A more plausible explanation is that they are set to exterminate trees in Afghanistan in order to deprive Afghans of oxygen and of shadow under the sun. Hakimi was just a pretext.
My explanation seems absurd. Re-read the account by NATO of their feat.
Keep it up NATO!
And don't mind the blokes who keep pestering you with talks of blow-back.
Like from the tribesmen of the Haqqani, whom you have successfully caused to develop a deep hatred of you and the desire of revenge in their hearts for generations to come.
But hey, short-term wins over long-term success right! GO NATO!!
Sitting under a tree? Like Newton? How many times has the US killed the same guy? The FCM shouldn't report it because the world may start believe that these guys are some sort of super men who have several lives. Wow! I, for example, am awed at the resilience of these people who can't be droned away so easily.