Jamal Said (c. 1965 - 24 August 2012) better known by the ''

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Dadullah and also Maulana Mohammad Jamal, was a senior member of the

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. He was self-proclaimed Taliban leader in

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's northern

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. He was killed in a

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airstrike in the Shigal wa Sheltan District of

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's neighbouring

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on 24 August 2012. His deputy and ten Taliban fighters were also killed in the strike. Born in

Khar, Bajaur Khar (, ''X̌ār''), also spelled Khaar, is the headquarters of Bajaur District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Khar was one of the largest towns in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (merged into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018). It lies near t ...

, he received his religious education in

Panjpir Panjpir (Pashto:پنج پیر) is a town and Union council of Swabi District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan that is surrounded by Shahmansoor, Kaddi, Thand Kohi, Bam Khel, Darra and Ismailabad.Panj peer means five Sufi Saints. ...

and was a former prayer leader before he became a Taliban commander. It was reported by AP that Dadullah became leader of the group after Bajur's former Pakistani Taliban leader, Maulvi Faqir Mohammed, fled to

to avoid Pakistani army operations. He was succeeded by Maulana Abu Bakr.

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