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The blast devastated a meeting of Ahrar al-Sham's senior staff on Wednesday, killing at least 50 people, including the group's highly influential commander, Hassan Aboud.
"He was the most influential commander in the area," said a senior Pakistani official who agreed to discuss Mr. Zadran on the condition of anonymity.
For reasons that remain unclear, the deal fell through and in the aftermath of its collapse Pol Pot ordered the killing of his former defence chief, Son Sen, and an influential commander, Ta Mok.
Thanks to some back-channel talks, some Shabab, including an influential commander in the town of Jowhar, have already changed sides.Crush them or co-opt themPlainly the Shabab will be hard to deal with, whether by force, negotiation or trickery.
In that spirit, General Kang Pyo-yong, deputy Defence Minister and probably the North's most influential commander, declared the North's "intercontinental ballistic missiles and other missiles are on standby" with miniaturised warheads able to turn Washington "into a sea of fire".
Two influential commanders from north of Kabul were present when Mr. Rabbani made his announcement at a news conference.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a statement on Wednesday that General Tal was "one of the bravest and most influential commanders in the history of the Israel Defense Forces".
But they acknowledged that the controversy, and the firing of one of the military's most influential commanders, served to emphasize Mr. Gates's determination to add more discipline to the Defense Department's interactions with the media.
By multiple accounts, Bergdahl was under the control of Mullah Sangeen Zadran, one of the most influential commanders in the Haqqani network.
Mr. Nazir is considered one of the most influential Taliban commanders.
The Islamists, who include some influential militia commanders, have warned that they will not permit their secular counterparts in a new government to sideline them.
