A Battlefield Tourist

Mastermind of Wanat Dead?

Oct 10 at 12:12am by David Tate

In the below account of the Battle for COP Keating, part of the transmission talks about the elimination of a high value target (HVT):

“The mosque was hit by a Hellfire, and open source now reports that a high profile insurgent named Dost Mohammad was killed there.”

As pointed out by a reader on another forum, Dost Mohammad is the man that lead the attack on COP Kahler during the Battle of Wanat in July, 2008.  So if this report is accurate, and I believe it is, it’s an important change on that battlefield.  He’s also the “shadow governor” of Nuristan for the Taliban.   That probably also means that the insurgent band being pursued following Kamdesh is full of veterans of the attack on Wanat as well?

One thing for sure, though; Kamdesh and Wanat may as well have been the same thing.  The similarities are so numerous it’s like Ground Hog’s Day.