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     Targeted Taliban Leader Was in Iran Hours Before Dying in Drone Strike

   by VOA News

   Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, the Taliban leader killed in a U.S. drone strike
   Saturday, crossed into Pakistan from Iran about five hours before he
   died.

   A VOA reporter has seen his passport, showing his entry and exit
   stamps. Mansoor, an Afghan citizen, carried a Pakistani passport when
   he entered the country about 10 a.m. local time at the Taftan transit
   point. The passport bears the name Wali Muhammad, but has his photo.

   In addition, a passport control photo shows him entering the country.
   The photo has been shown to villagers in Chaman Railway Colony, to see
   if they know the person in the photo. Chaman Railway Colony was one of
   the addresses in the Pakistani identification documents Mansoor
   carried.

   He had crossed into Iran at the same point on April 24.

   The Taftan crossing is a busy cargo transit point, bringing goods to
   and from Iran.
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   ''Mansoor headed to Quetta, about 680 kilometers from Taftan. He
   stopped for lunch near the town of Kochki. After eating, he headed back
   the road, and was sitting in the back seat of the car. He was killed
   about 15 kilometers away, near Ahmad Wal, about 170 kilometers from his
   destination.

   The VOA reporter who saw the passport says it had multiple exit and
   entry stamps for travel between Karachi in Pakistan and Dubai between
   2006 and 2013.
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