5/13/2007

“Mullah Dadullah, the much-reviled [Taliban] commander of southern Afghanistan…was finally killed on May 13, 2007, in a firefight in Garmser, Helmand province [Afghanistan]. He had been tracked by Britain’s Special Boat Service in Quetta [Pakistan] and killed after he left the city.”

 – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Pages 398-399