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Offline TheSarge

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Top Taliban Commander Captured in Secret Raid
« on: February 16, 2010, 12:51:17 AM »


The Taliban's top military commander has been captured in Pakistan in a joint operation by Pakistani and U.S. intelligence forces, sources confirmed to Fox News late Monday.

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, described as the No. 2 behind Taliban founder and Usama bin Laden associate Mullah Muhammad Omar, has been in Pakistani custody for several days.

Baradar was captured in Karachi, Pakistan, in a raid by Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, with CIA operatives accompanying the Pakistanis, the New York Times first reported Monday. Pakistan has been leading the interrogation of Baradar, but Americans are also involved, officials said.

Baradar heads the Taliban's military council and was elevated in the body after the 2006 death of military chief Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Usmani. Baradar is known to coordinate the movement's military operations throughout the south and southwest of Afghanistan. His area of direct responsibility stretches over Kandahar, Helmand, Nimroz, Zabul and Uruzgan provinces.

If confirmed, Baradar's arrest would be a major setback for the Taliban.

He may also have information on the whereabouts of Omar and bin Laden.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586061,00.html
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Re: Top Taliban Commander Captured in Secret Raid
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2010, 04:31:19 AM »
DU is all over this. Obama is a kick ass CiC....Bush never got a #2 man...Please don't torture him..
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Re: Top Taliban Commander Captured in Secret Raid
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2010, 07:23:52 AM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on February 16, 2010, 04:31:19 AM
DU is all over this. Obama is a kick ass CiC....Bush never got a #2 man...Please don't torture him..
They are falling and the feet of O in worship.

I hate to tell the DUmmies this, but as soon as he was captured there was already a new "number 2" man already in place.  There have been plenty of "number 2" leaders in al Qaeda killed or captured.
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Re: Top Taliban Commander Captured in Secret Raid
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2010, 07:27:20 AM »
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... Bush never got a #2 man ...

What about Saddam, Uday and Qusay? And has the guy just captured been the Talibanders' #2 man since before 2002? They think this gets the Is-He-Serious-About-Security monkey off the back of the Great and Powerful O. Yeah, right ...
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Re: Top Taliban Commander Captured in Secret Raid
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2010, 07:31:23 AM »
Now that they have him why not hang him by his balls till he screams like a little girl
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Re: Top Taliban Commander Captured in Secret Raid
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2010, 07:55:19 AM »
"WE" didn't get him--the ISI did.  And they're not going to do SHIT unless THEY want to.  Bottom line, this guy, as one analyist on FNC said this morning, "Went off the reservation," which is why the ISI felt the need to take him down when they did.
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Re: Top Taliban Commander Captured in Secret Raid
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2010, 08:22:09 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on February 16, 2010, 07:23:52 AM
I hate to tell the DUmmies this, but as soon as he was captured there was already a new "number 2" man already in place.  There have been plenty of "number 2" leaders in al Qaeda killed or captured.
Yeah, I remember all the posts on DU every time this happened. "We captured how many #2s now, but Bush still can't get Osama. Bush failed! Bush sucks! I hate Bush! blah blah blah..."
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Re: Top Taliban Commander Captured in Secret Raid
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2010, 10:18:25 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on February 16, 2010, 07:55:19 AM
"WE" didn't get him--the ISI did.  And they're not going to do SHIT unless THEY want to.  Bottom line, this guy, as one analyist on FNC said this morning, "Went off the reservation," which is why the ISI felt the need to take him down when they did.

Yeah, purely an ISI thing with support from our intel community, NOT a military op of ours...Karachi is about as far from the Afghan border as you can get and still be in Pakistan.  All of which leads to the inevitable unanswered questions about just what is REALLY going on here, because there is obviously some deeper game afoot within the ISI and Taliban for this to have gone off at all.  It sure as Hell isn't because the ISI has suddenly decided Islamists are bad news.
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Re: Top Taliban Commander Captured in Secret Raid
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2010, 10:42:13 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on February 16, 2010, 10:18:25 AM
Yeah, purely an ISI thing with support from our intel community, NOT a military op of ours...Karachi is about as far from the Afghan border as you can get and still be in Pakistan.  All of which leads to the inevitable unanswered questions about just what is REALLY going on here, because there is obviously some deeper game afoot within the ISI and Taliban for this to have gone off at all.  It sure as Hell isn't because the ISI has suddenly decided Islamists are bad news.

How many US tax dollars did it cost us to bribe some packy general into coughing this guy up?
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Re: Top Taliban Commander Captured in Secret Raid
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2010, 11:06:41 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on February 16, 2010, 07:55:19 AM
"WE" didn't get him--the ISI did.  And they're not going to do SHIT unless THEY want to.  Bottom line, this guy, as one analyist on FNC said this morning, "Went off the reservation," which is why the ISI felt the need to take him down when they did.

That won't stop 0Bama from claiming credit, or at least it won't stop Joe Biden.  He claims Iraq is an 0Bama success.
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