Taliban's second in command captured

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LAMABAD – The capture of the Afghan Taliban's No. 2 commander by a joint CIA and Pakistani team dealt a fresh blow to insurgents under heavy U.S. attack and raised hopes that Pakistani security forces are ready to deny Afghan militant leaders a safe haven.

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar's arrest in the Pakistani port city of Karachi may also push other insurgent leaders thought to be sheltering on this side of the border toward talks with the Afghan government — a development increasingly seen as key to ending the eight-year war.

Baradar, in his late 40s, was the second in command behind Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar and was said to be in charge of the day-to-day running of the organization's leadership council, which is believed based in Pakistan. He was a founding member of the Taliban and is the most important figure of the hardline Islamist movement to be arrested in the war.

Baradar, who also functioned as the link between Mullah Omar and field commanders, has been in detention for more than 10 days and was talking to interrogators, two Pakistani intelligence officials said Tuesday. One said several other suspects were also captured in the raid. He said Baradar had provided "useful information" to them and that Pakistan had shared it with their U.S. counterparts. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100216/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan_taliban

and more good news

Taliban commander, 4 al Qaeda fighters killed in raid near Marja
 
Nice work, now to go after the mystical (possibly fictitious) Osama.
 
GhostSixFour said:
Wasn't there some kind of massive reward for his capture? Never mind the powerball, I'm going bounty hunter!
Not the same guy, but should still be profitable...

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-03/19/content_316316.htm
http://www.france24.com/en/20090628...ve-reward-baitullah-mehsud-attacks-insurgency
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Been there, done that. Even posted on a couple of Boards requesting people to pm if they know the whereabouts of Bin Laden - $ 25 million! Haven't given up...
 
Cheri_N said:
Been there, done that. Even posted on a couple of Boards requesting people to pm if they know the whereabouts of Bin Laden - $ 25 million! Haven't given up...
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Not $25 anymore, it's been doubled! Dead or alive.. Doesn't he have some, soon to be, unfortunate twin anywhere?
Let's ask PythonFSI, he should know..
 
GhostSixFour said:
Not $25 anymore, it's been doubled! Dead or alive.. Doesn't he have some, soon to be, unfortunate twin anywhere?
Let's ask PythonFSI, he should know..
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Yeah, lets collaborate - catch the bastard (or twin), and I will even spit the $50 mil with you guys ... PythonFSI, you in?
 
Let's hope Barack Obama doesn't pull the idiots move and transfer the guy to a civilian court.
 
Garyvdh said:
Let's hope Barack Obama doesn't pull the idiots move and transfer the guy to a civilian court.
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Remember it's only if you try to commit a terrorist on U.S soil do suddenly turn into a common criminal :erm:
 
A US drone strike killed at least four Islamist insurgents Wednesday

Looks like a week of good news from that neck of the woods.

A US drone strike killed at least four Islamist insurgents Wednesday

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — A US drone strike killed at least four Islamist insurgents Wednesday at a compound close to the Afghan border in Pakistan's militant-infested tribal belt, security officials said.

The attack was the third since Sunday in North Waziristan district, a stronghold of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Haqqani network known for staging attacks across the border on US and NATO troops fighting the Taliban.

Pakistani officials and residents said the aircraft fired two missiles into a militant compound in Tabi Tolkhel village, just five kilometres (three miles) from the border with the Afghan province of Khost.

"According to initial reports four militants were killed and two wounded," a security official said, requesting anonymity.

A local administration official confirmed the toll and said it was a US drone strike targeting a compound belonging to a Taliban commander.

The building was used as a guesthouse for visiting Taliban militants operating across the border in Afghanistan, another security official said.

Khost was the scene of a suicide attack in December, when a Jordanian double agent infiltrated a US base and blew himself up, killing seven CIA employees in the deadliest attack on the US spy agency in 26 years.

The Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud appeared in a video alongside the Jordanian Al-Qaeda bomber, and Washington appears to have stepped up its drone war in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt since the suicide attack.

A drone strike on Monday about 20 kilometres from the Khost border killed three militants, security officials have said, while seven insurgents were killed Sunday in a US raid near North Waziristan's main town, Miranshah.

Pakistani and US officials increasingly believe Mehsud was killed in a January strike in the northwest, although the Taliban insist he is alive.

The US drone programme targets Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants in the semi-autonomous northwest tribal belt, which Washington calls the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and the most dangerous region on earth.

Officials in Washington say the strikes are a vital tool and have killed a number of high-value targets including Mehsud's predecessor Baitullah Mehsud, but the bombing raids fuel anti-American sentiment in Muslim Pakistan.

More than 780 people have been killed in the US strikes in Pakistan since August 2008, with a surge in the past year as US President Barack Obama puts Pakistan at the heart of his fight against Al-Qaeda.

Washington is pressuring Islamabad to do more to dismantle militant border sanctuaries, as it struggles to battle the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan, where more than 110,000 US and NATO troops are based.

About 15,000 foreign and Afghan troops are locked in one of the biggest offensives since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, targeting a stronghold of the insurgency in a district of Helmand province in the Afghan south.
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And the US killing 780 people in a country that it is not supposed to be at war with is good news how? The sooner the USA realises that these illegal wars that it is waging in the Middle East is the very reason that it is now technically bankrupt and that the day will come that the Chinese will no longer fund these wars by stopping to buy worthless T-bills, the better for everyone. Besides for the military establishment and the armaments companies, these wars offer virtually zero benefit to anybody in the USA. At the same time at least a trillion dollars in new debt has been created in order to fund these adventures. Unfortunately for the USA, the bill is still to become due.
 
marine1 said:
Excellent news again, they should send in more drones. I wish they would let us control the drones :D
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Imagine that, market it as a online game, but you are actually piloting a drone in Iraq. I think people will complain about the graphics though.
 
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