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U.S. Kills Pakistani Taliban Leader in Afghanistan
(Long War Journal) Bill Roggio - Omar Khalid al Khurasani, the leader of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar who was closely tied to al-Qaeda, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan earlier this week, a spokesman for the group confirmed. Nine other JuA members were also killed in the strike. The group has claimed credit for multiple attacks inside Pakistan. A suicide bomber at a park in Lahore on Easter in 2016 killed 72, mostly women and children, and wounded 300. The group's spokesman said "the target was Christians." The group has also targeted the U.S. consulate in Peshawar and polio vaccination teams in Karachi. In Aug. 2016, the U.S. State Department designated JuA a global terrorist organization.