Killed osama bin laden, the u. S. Military has again reached into pakistan to take out a notorious terror leader. The Afghan Government, confirms that mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed this weekend in a u. S. Drone strike in pakistan. Mansoor blamed for the deaths of many u. S. Troops across the borden in afghanistan. U. S. Officials say personal obama personally authorized the strike. Here is elizabeth palmer. Reporter this, according to the Afp News Agency is the aftermath of the drone strike. The burned out car, mullah Akhtar Mansoor had been riding in and at least two charred bodies. There is only one known photograph of mansoor. Afghanistans Intelligence Agency said he had been under close surveillance for a while. Secretary of state john kerry, on a visit to myanmar, confirmed at take. Yesterday, the United States conducted a Precision Air strike that targeted taliban leader mullah Akhtar Mansoor in a remote area of the afghanistan pakistan border. Reporter in fact the strike actu
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Responsibility. Elaine. Holly williams in egypt, thank you. President obama arrived in vietnam sunday. He is only the third sitting u. S. President to visit the communist nation. Later this week, hell be in japan. Margaret brennan is traveling with the president and joins me from hanoi. Margaret, what is the president hoping to achieve on this trip . Well, elaine, the goal here in vietnam is to turn this former foe into a friend. And in doing so send a very strong message to china that the u. S. Will not let them militarily dominate all of asia. China is currently locked in a number of territorial disputes in south and east china seas. So president obama is kidding expanding weapons sales to vietnam. Thats a ctr kidding that this country is still run by an authoritarian communist government. Margaret, later this week the president will be the first sitting president to visit it hiroshima. Why has he decided to go . Well this extremely symbolic visit is mainly to underscore his legacy o
But first, we turn to the middle east, where a group of Sunni Islamist militants have formed nation startup looking to gain market share in iraq. The group is called isis, not to be confused with their early 90s incarnation, vanilla isis. [laughter] anyway, the Iraqi Government has now had a couple tweaks respond to the rebels incursion. We should be getting news of the Iraqi Governments triumph right about now. Isis militants control the borderrary with syria, the border area with jordan and pretty much everything in between. Jon right about now. [laughter] wait did you just blow past everything in between. Did you just yadda, yadda the invasion . Yeah, isis came in from syria, started sweeping east, yadda, yadda, yadda, the u. N. Now recognizes the Islamic Republic of isis. Isis running an entire country, it seems like fun, guys, but i think youre going to learn, running a country is not as easy as it sounds. Isis militants trying take over a hydroelectric dam. Providing social servi
Yeah, isis came in from syria, started sweeping east, yadda, yadda, yadda, the u. N. Now recognizes the Islamic Republic of isis. Isis running an entire country, it seems like fun, guys, but i think youre going to learn, running a country is not as easy as it sounds. Isis militants trying take over a hydroelectric dam. Providing social services and investing in electricity. On the streets of mosul, isis militants now direct traffic. [laughter] jon all right. First of all, my guess is that dude is not the top jihadi. Im sure the leaders like, you, grab your group, move toward baghdad. You, seize the refineries. Jimmy, make sure no one blocks the box. As you know, for quite a few years the flow of iraqi traffic was our job. And if you think were just going to sit here and let islamist radicals recalibrate the dont walk signs, well, listen up, mister, you got another thing coming. President obama is send small group of American Forces into iraq, up to 275 troops. Jon 275. [laughter] now,