Posted on 07/18/2005 12:22:06 PM PDT by areafiftyone
Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested five senior Taliban leaders, including a deputy to fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar, a security official said tonight.
The arrests were made after security agents made raids on several homes in north-west Pakistan, the official said.
He identified two of the captured men as Maulvi Abdul Qadeer, a deputy to Omar, and Abdul Kabir, a former governor in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province.
The official would not disclose the names of the remaining three leaders, but said “they are also important Taliban leaders who are in our custody and being interrogated in Pakistan.”
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we get senior AQ leaders every week . . . makes you wonder how many are left.
hoo wah!
That is a very good point, at this point 3 kids and a dog would be senior leaders in the Taliban.
Capturing the capo di capi is like trying to grab a salamander. It keeps breaking off a tail (deputy) and getting away.
great news!
Give us Osamas' location or we shall put panties upon your heads!!
Ya but you all know that this is just a diversion tactic to take away from the Rove/Plame case. The Pakistani's planned it all ya know! They got a call from Rove! (/sarcasm)
Round up the usual suspects...
How long before Durbin demands the receive humane treatment?
in Pakistan, alot of them. including Omar, AZ, and OBL - they are there too.
every once in a while, Pakistan shakes some salt out of the shaker and cleans up - I think they toss us these bones so we don't press them too hard on being able to go in there and get the big guys.
What we need is Mullah Omar spending the remainder of his life in a cell at Gitmo.
It won't be news until it's not a "deputy" and is, in fact Mullah F'n Omar himself.
This man's head needs to be on the end of a stake.
Interesting how they know where to find terrorists when the pressure is on.
They are not saying the names of the other ones I hope its because they are biggies!
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