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Posted on 12/23/2004 5:15:15 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
KABUL: Coalition forces have arrested two Taliban commanders in Nowbahar district of Zabul province, VoA reports.
Security chief of the Zabul province Gen Janan Khan said both the commanders were held in a joint operation by the Afghan National Army and the coalition forces.
However, a Taliban spokesman has denied arrest of the said commanders.
KABUL, December 23 (Online): Two groups of the opponent militants have been destroyed in Shinkay district of the Zabul province. According to VOA, after consecutive attacks on the coalition forces during the last two days in Shinkay and Dak Kotal areas of the Zabul province, two groups of the opponent militants have been destroyed.
Talking to VOA, Security Chief of the Zabul Province Janan Khan said that the coalition forces in collaboration with the Afghan troops have seized a cache of arms.
According to the latest reports, operations against the opponent militants have been intensified. Observers add that almost five active groups of the ousted Taliban regime are present in the area.
So why don't they arrest said taliban spokesman?
bin laden and zawahiri?
"Commanders" usually refers to a regional leader. The guy who runs the terrorists in a certain city or province. But it always means good intel.
Would that it were, would that it were.
Very VERY good news! Let's let the taliban know that they have pi$$ed off the WRONG country! Woowhooooo! Go guys!
Guess Mr. Gul wasn't quite as good as he thought he was, huh?
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
They are rolling up the Taliban leadership....this isn't the only leadership arrest lately. There has to have been a tipping point....something or someone is giving the good guys the intel.
I have a little different take. It may be that the arrest of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan allowed the ISI and CIA to understand how AQ and the Taliban operated.
They learned the kind of messaging they used, what routes they traveled, how they disguise themselves and what their operating methods are.
It seems like Khan's arrest was really the watershed moment in the WoT in the Afghan-Pakistan theater.
They're essentially a bunch of sub-literate seminary students.
If we're ever going to turn the tide against terror, our policymakers should start heeding the advice of Bernard Henri-Levy.
I doubt that alone would be sufficient to roll these guys up like they have been. After all their lines of communications have been relagated to mere couriers for months.
I suspect there is a tipping poing, as the Afgans see things improving. They have seen over a year now with no warlords, no public executions in stadiums, no public flogging of women. They've seen the return of relative peace, voting, music, etc.
The tipping point that has been reached is probably that point where the common man in will drop a dime (or afgani "pul") on these clowns. There are probably so few of them left that no one fears doing this. My bet is the dime droppers are probably Mothers sick of seeing their sons slaughtered in service to islam.
I agree..
Yes, another new thread was just posted on this
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