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Pakistan: Key Swat Taleban commander said killed in US drone strike.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report by Said Nazir Afridi headlined "US drone strikes in Khyber Agency" published by Pakistan newspaper The News website on 20 December

Bara: The dreaded and most wanted Swati Taleban commander, Ibne Amin, was reportedly among the militants killed in the US drone strike in Khyber Agency's Tirah valley on Thursday [16 December].

A senior commander of the Mangal Bagh-led Lashkar-e-Islam [militant group] told The News that Ibne Amin was killed along with six other militants who were his bodyguards when the missiles fired by the drone hit his vehicle.

Pleading anonymity, he said Ibne Amin was among the seven militants killed in the Lashkar-e-Islam-controlled territory in Tirah valley's Spindrand area located some four kilometres southeast of the Afghan border.

Ibne Amin belonged to Kuz Shawar …

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