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The guerrilla war waged by the Taliban in Afghanistan suffered a military setback and made political gains. The gains were covered by NBC's Jim Maceda in Kabul. A recent spate of bombing and shootings by US troops has killed 130 civilians in just three months: "Afghan patience is wearing so thin that some lawmakers just voted for the end of all US military operations here and are calling for peace talks with the Taliban." The setback was the death of Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's 41-year-old operational commander, killed in his hiding place in Helmand Province. Just three days earlier he had recorded a propaganda videotape that was obtained by the anti-jihadist NEFA Foundation and handed to ABC's Brian Ross. Ross' unnamed sources told him that US forces tracked Dadullah from Pakistan to the interview location: "His eagerness to be on camera…helped lead to his downfall."
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