Posted on 02/15/2010 2:39:56 AM PST by Cindy
SNIPPET: "A top Taliban commander who trains children to become suicide bombers has disproved reports that he was killed during a US Predator airstrike in mid-January.
Qari Hussain Mehsud, a senior lieutenant to Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan leader Hakeemullah Mehsud, spoke to a Pakistani news service on Feb. 14 to take credit for last week's deadly suicide attacks in Bannu."
SNIPPET: "The Pakistani government claimed Qari Hussain was killed in the Jan. 14 US airstrike that targeted Hakeemullah in North Waziristan. But Qari Hussain confirmed he was alive when he contacted a Pakistani television station on Feb. 1 to deny that Hakeemullah was killed."
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/02/talibans_mastermind.php#ixzz0fbEtI48z
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Qari Hussain Mehsud, a senior lieutenant to Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan leader Hakeemullah Mehsud, spoke to a Pakistani news service on Feb. 14 to take credit for last week's deadly suicide attacks in Bannu.Thanks Cindy.
Report: Taliban's top military commander captured (in Karachi, Pakistan, in a raid)
Yes, and thank you Ernest.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451342/posts
Thanks C for the post. As usual one should not jump to quick on good news. Sometimes it becomes no news. But surely the new news regarding the big catch of number two in the Afghan Taliban appears to be solid at this point.
You’re welcome SunkenCiv.
Two middle-aged Muslim women are sitting in the afternoon sun reminiscing about their families. The first woman shows the second woman pictures of her children from her wallet.
With a sad look she says, “This is my son Abdul. He would be 28 years old now. It has been six years since he was martyred.”
She then selects a second picture and says, “This is my son Muhammed. He would be 25 years old now. It has been four years since he was martyred.”
She then selects a third picture and says, ‘”This is my son Hamid. He would be 21 years old now. It has been two years since he was martyred.”
The second lady nods her head in a sympathetic manner and says, “They blow up so fast these days.”
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