Ex-Taliban Minister Dies In NATO Air Strike

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Washington Times
December 18, 2006
Pg. 19


KANDAHAR -- The former religious police minister in the ousted Taliban government has been killed in a NATO air strike in southern Afghanistan, a senior provincial official said.
Abdul Wali, along with 30 other militants, was killed three days ago in the NATO raid in Panjwai district of Kandahar, Kandahar Gov. Asadullah Khalid said.
Taliban sources confirmed the raid but said Mr. Wali, the radical Islamic movement's one-time minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, was not killed
 
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