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Top Taliban leader captured?
AP via Canoe CNEWS ^ | May 19, 2006 | Noor Khan

Posted on 05/19/2006 9:50:37 AM PDT by Squawk 8888

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Coalition forces captured a rebel fighter with only one leg in a battle this week in southern Afghanistan, and it was possible the insurgent could be a top Taliban leader, an Afghan general said Friday.

The militant was captured in a joint operation by Canadian and Afghan forces in Kandahar province on Wednesday, said Gen. Rehmatullah Raufi, head of the Afghan military's southern region.

Mullah Dadullah, who lost a leg fighting for the Taliban during its rise to power in the mid-1990s, is one of the hardline militia's top commanders, responsible for operations in eastern and southeastern Afghanistan.

Neither the coalition nor the Afghan government in Kabul said they could immediately confirm that Dadullah had been captured.

"We currently do not have any information but are looking into the claim," said Lieut. Tamara Lawrence, a U.S. military spokeswoman. "Right now we don't have any information that would support it."

Raufi said coalition troops captured the insurgent during a battle in the Panjwayi district of Kandahar province on Wednesday, fighting that led to the deaths of 18 militants and a female Canadian soldier, Capt. Nichola Goddard. About 35 rebels were reported captured in the battle.

Raufi said the captive with the missing leg was seriously wounded and unconscious in a military hospital. There was a "good chance" the fighter was Dadullah but Raufi said he didn't know for sure.

Both Dadullah and Taliban leader Mullah Omar are Pashtun, and Dadullah is one of the most trusted followers of Omar.

In a satellite phone interview with The Associated Press in December, Dadullah said more than 200 rebel fighters were willing to become suicide attackers against U.S. forces and their allies. Since then, there have been repeated suicide bombings, particularly in the south of the country.

Dadullah ruled out reconciliation and talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government, saying it "owed its existence" to non-Muslims, and to do so would amount to "joining Christianity and working for Christians."

The 18 rebels killed in Kandahar province on Wednesday during the joint Afghan-Canadian mission were part of a 24-hour storm of violence Wednesday and Thursday in which 100 people were reported killed, including about 90 insurgents, 18 Afghan police officers, an American civilian and the Canadian soldier.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Canada; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; captured; elvisbinladen; oef; taliban; yesterday
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To: K4Harty

How about Osama Obama? :-)


121 posted on 05/19/2006 3:24:00 PM PDT by frankiep (Visualize Whirled Peas)
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To: Nachum

Our side doesnt get it...it's a distributed system.


122 posted on 05/19/2006 3:34:47 PM PDT by Chickensoup (The water in the pot is getting warmer, froggies.The water in the pot is getting warmer, froggies.)
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To: Allegra
You know Mullah Dadullah,

A really interestin' fellah,

With only one leg,

And a lawyer in the Hague,

He made bail with a hole,

In his medullah!

123 posted on 05/19/2006 4:19:22 PM PDT by Candor7
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To: Gondring

I'd say the author sure likes the RR's. He made some valid points.


124 posted on 05/19/2006 4:48:13 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know.)
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To: Tallguy

I'll see you and raise you two: Get back to me when the Exxon flag flies proudly over the oil fields of the middle east.


125 posted on 05/19/2006 4:53:20 PM PDT by gotribe (It's not a religion.)
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To: wyattearp

The instant I saw the name, that is the tune that kicked in.

"We've got a Dadullah for sale;
It's Mullah Dadullah for sale.
Needn't try him;
Take him home and Fry Him!
Dadullah For Sale!"


126 posted on 05/19/2006 5:51:26 PM PDT by Museum Twenty (Proudly supporting President George W. Bush - Proudly shouting "Rumsfeld '08!")
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To: frankiep
It's got a good tune, a funky beat and you can dance to it

I'll give it a 7.5

:o)

127 posted on 05/19/2006 7:28:17 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (My Pug is On Her War Footing)
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To: Squawk 8888

You can hop, but you can't hide.


128 posted on 05/19/2006 7:30:19 PM PDT by NavVet (O)
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To: ASA Vet
I'd say the author sure likes the RR's.

LOL...sure does!

129 posted on 05/19/2006 7:47:11 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Victor

Not to be confused with Banana Fana Fo Dullah.


130 posted on 05/20/2006 12:38:44 AM PDT by TeddyCon
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To: Keith
Or put him on the wall and call him Art.

Get TWO guys with one leg each.

Hang 'em up on either side of a window.

Call one Curt -- call the other one Rod.

131 posted on 05/20/2006 2:06:09 AM PDT by Watery Tart (Four shalt thou not count; neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.)
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To: Squawk 8888

Hello Mullah, hello Fatwa....

Here I am at Camp Gitmo....


132 posted on 05/20/2006 2:09:09 AM PDT by Watery Tart (Four shalt thou not count; neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.)
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To: Squawk 8888
It takes special subterfuge with these guys. For instance:


133 posted on 05/20/2006 2:29:22 AM PDT by Watery Tart (Four shalt thou not count; neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.)
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To: Candor7
There once was a Taliban Mullah
Who went by the name of Dadullah
The trumpets were tooted
But his capture's disputed
Oh, the crap these jihadis are full o'!
134 posted on 05/20/2006 2:58:48 AM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: Gondring
Referring to Ma Deuce as a pop-gun is Blasphemy.

Might as well go watch the Da Vinci Code, darn you to heck!

/pre-coffee Saturday morning humor, sorry

135 posted on 05/20/2006 3:08:06 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (All Hail the Great Folger, creator of hot brown goodness.)
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To: NutCrackerBoy

LOL on the Limerick !!!!


136 posted on 05/20/2006 4:22:35 AM PDT by Candor7
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To: Victor

-There once was a one legged Mullah named Dadullah...


137 posted on 05/20/2006 11:03:18 AM PDT by FBD ("Rapid immigration is at odds with rapid assimilation.)
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To: Grampa Dave
>"It is tough to be a Taliban Islamofascist and keep all of your body parts while trying to stay alive."<


-Yeah...these guys are satirical parodies, similar to Monty Pythons knight, who had his arms and legs all hacked off, and still thought he was a force to be reckoned with...
138 posted on 05/20/2006 11:12:01 AM PDT by FBD ("Rapid immigration is at odds with rapid assimilation.)
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To: FBD

"-Yeah...these guys are satirical parodies, similar to Monty Pythons knight, who had his arms and legs all hacked off, and still thought he was a force to be reckoned with..."

Amazing how so many of us view these damaged Talibunnies al Qaeda thugs in the same way. The legless and armless Knight in MP's satire warning about how tough he was is a perfect marker for these damaged thugs.


139 posted on 05/20/2006 11:51:03 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist homosexual lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: Red Badger

It's a rather rare USMC system.
Rare, but effective......... Yeah, so long as you don't have to reload it while under fire.


140 posted on 05/21/2006 7:37:26 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft
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