At least according to CNN.com
What could this mean-is it good or bad?
I’m not sure of your General Question here. Were they killed? Time and more accurate reporting may tell. Earlier, some news agency had the Taliban skirmishing with Pakistani border troops, but it turned out to be refugees trying to sneak in, so early reports don’t have a lot of credibility from there.
Good or bad is, of course, a matter for Great Debates.
Ooops-Manny, my bad.
Seriously, what I want to know is if this is good for us-meaning, was this what we wanted, or will it make things more dangerous-I wasn’t sure if this was a GG or a GD-I SWEAR I’m not trying to annoy you.
It’s all good!
As to whether it was a mission objective, I don’t think the Pentagon ever announces that killing people is a specific objective. And I’m pretty sure they don’t mention that killing specific people is a specific objective, for fear of falling afoul of the non-assination Executive Order.
But it has to occur to them, n’est pas?
Whether it makes things harder or easier on future mission objectives depends on the strength of the Taliban’s second string. If there are a bunch of capable loyalists ready to step in, it may harden them and make the Taliban more difficult to deal with (if that’s possible). OTOH, if the second string was wavering in the first place, they may defect and make defeating the Taliban easier.
Time will tell.
How could they possibly know that they’ve killed certain people? They even state that they’ve killed two of Mullah Omar’s relatives - how could they know?
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Ummmm. Maybe someone saw the bodies? Maybe I’m not following your question.
Yep, we wouldn’t want to assinate anyone. 
Seriously though, I’ve heard that two of Mullah “the Moose” Omar’s family have been killed. I dont think they’re actually Taliban leadership though.
Does this mean I can shave?
Hmmm, nobody seems shy about it at all: “We dropped bombs on Omar’s house,” sez Pentagon spokeman earlier today. Okay, I’m paraphrasing, but this was widely reported. It wasn’t implied that this was unintentional, and it sure would imply to me that they were trying to kill someone in that house, Oui?
Omar’s house was more than just a “house”. It was a compound, containing, among other things, command and control facilities. Military target. If Omar had happened to be home at the time, well, that’d have been just too bad. [sub]Wink, wink[/sub]
Oh, sure. When he was an amiable dunce, everyone loved my Dubya impression. Now that he’s Mr. Big Shot World Leader, no one cares.
Well, I’ll just be over here, doing whatever Dana Carvey is doing. 