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Hakimullah mast adwas killed in a u.s. missile strike last month, mast ad's death would be a huge blow to the taliban, but the taliban is fiercely denying those claims, saying their leader is alive. >> reporter: the very latest is today, this country's enter minister confirmed that hakimullah masoud is dead, that is coming from a government official but also someone who's going on with the record to say hakimullah masoud is dead. he stopped short of telling us how he died, but intelligence officials say he died after wounds sustained in a mid-january drone strike in the tribal areas. he was th...

Going around for the last couple of weeks. this is definitive, coming from the government, saying he is in fact dead. if we look ahead, with the taliban, they're saying no, he's alive, but we saw six months ago when his pred saidor was killed in a drone strike, it took time to make the announcement mainly because there was jockeying within the org as to who the next leader will be. that's probably what we're seeing now. there are rumors of who might be named as hakimullah's successor. this is not going to be a death blow to the taliban, but it's definitely going to set them back for a little b...

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