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U.S. kills Pakistani terrorist in Afghanistan

By Jamie McIntyre
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U.S. kills Pakistani terrorist in Afghanistan

The Pentagon says a U.S. airstrike conducted in southern Afghanistan Saturday killed a terrorist who was responsible for several of the deadliest attacks in Pakistan in recent years.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said Umar Khalifa, a known terrorist leader with the Tariq Gidar Group, was killed along with four other enemy combatants in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.

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