HANOI,
Vietnam — An American drone strike on Saturday in a restive province of
Pakistan killed Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, the leader of the
Afghan Taliban, the White House confirmed on Monday.
Calling the death “an important milestone,” President Obama
said in a statement, released just as he was meeting with top officials
in Vietnam, that the United States had “removed the leader of an
organization that has continued to plot against and unleash attacks on
American and coalition forces.”
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