ISLAMABAD, Jan. 20 Kyodo common ...

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 20 Kyodo

common of Afghanistan's most famous ''jihadi'' commanders loyal to President Hamid Karzai was assassinated Saturday through unidentified gunmen in Kunduz Province in northern Afghanistan, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) reported Sunday.

The Pakistan-based novels agency, quoting Kabul Radio, said the man known sole as ''Commander Abdullah'' had played an important character in the campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaida terror organization that l to Karzai being installed as the Afghan president and had also been a firm leader of the ''jihad'' against the Soviet Union during its occupation of Afghanistan from 1979

AIP gave no details about the attack onward Commander Abdullah other than to say his bodyguards had managed to kill sum of two units of the assassins.

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