"Taliban gloomy" after Pakistani arrests

Reuters ^ | Sun Mar 4, 2007 8:50am ET160 | Gul Yousafzai

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Gloomy is good for the Taliban...ping!

[pissant]

The Pakis arresting them are doing them a favor. Otherwise they will end up just like all their buddies, torn to pieces via US and NATO rounds.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

They were never any fun anyway! :)

[Socratic]

Gloomy is good for the Taliban...

I'd much prefer moribund.

[TADSLOS]

Gloom, doom and the Taliban. It's a great fit.

[LdSentinal]

If the Taliban are gloomy, then so are Democrats.

[river rat]

Gloomy?

Hell, I prefer the bastards DEAD - not gloomy.

Semper Fi

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Reuters report...

your Earlier reports:

Taliban officials confirm capture of two leaders (Confirmed directly to NBC)

Afghanistan/Pakistan - Taliban concede capture of Obaidullah, at last

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Reuters failed to mention the following from the first report linked above:

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Pakistani security forces raided at the Gul Park Hotel in Quetta, the capital of Balouchistan province, and arrested Ameer Khan Haqani, commander of Zabul province in Afghanistan, and Jaland Abdullah Sarhadi of Kandahar.

Sarhadi had been detained for more than three years in Guantanamo Bay after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. He was later released by U.S. authorities.

[Moonman62]

Akhund's arrest came hours after a visit to Pakistan by Vice President Dick Cheney in which he asked Pakistan to do more against the Taliban.

Cheney must have invited Musharraf quail hunting.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the Fourth Rail:

Kunar Operation as 2 Taliban leaders captured in Pakistan

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U.S. forces attack a HVT in Kunar; two Taliban leaders confirmed captured in Pakistan; Mullah Dadullah speaks

U.S. forces attack a HVT in Kunar; two Taliban leaders confirmed captured in Pakistan; Mullah Dadullah speaks

Mullah Dadullah on Al Jazeera.

Just days after the announced capture of Taliban leader Mullah Obaidullah Akhund was arrested in Pakistan, U.S. and Afghan forces are said to be on a major offensive in Kunar province, one of the most violent in Afghanistan. The target is said to be a High Value Target, possibly Osama bin Laden or another senior al-Qaeda leader. "According to eyewitnesses and local reporters in Kunar province, Coalition forces launched a fierce attack on a small enclave in the village of Mandaghel, approximately 17 miles from the border with Pakistan, on Friday afternoon," <em>ABC News' The Blotter reported. "Warplanes pounded the positions; U.S. special forces and Afghan National Army soldiers moved in shortly afterwards."

The joint U.S. and Afghan force is said to have struck at the compound of an "Islamic militant and suspected drug trafficker named Haji Aminullah." Kunar province has long been an al-Qaeda stronghold, notes The Blotter. The battle is said to be ongoing for the past 2 days.

Kunar also sits across the border from Bajaur agency in Pakistan, where Faqir Mohammed's Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (or TNSM, which translates to the Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Sharia), the Pakistani Taliban rules and al-Qaeda maintains a command and control center to direct operations into eastern and northern Afghanistan.

As the Kunar operation is underway, unnamed Pakistani sources are indicating that two additional Taliban commanders have been captured. Amir Khan Haqqani, the Taliban commander commander of Zabul province in Afghanistan, and Jaland Abdullah Sarhadi, who was released from Guantanamo Bay after three years in detention, were captured in the Gul Park Hotel in Quetta. This is the same location where Mullah Obaidullah was captured.

Pakistani sources are saying that "Mullah Obaidullah has been taken to the capital, Islamabad where a team of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials will assist in the interrogation process," according to NBC News.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Pakistani sources are saying that "Mullah Obaidullah has been taken to the capital, Islamabad where a team of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials will assist in the interrogation process," according to NBC News.

But only the Pakis's can do the ultimate....waterboarding....

[stboz]

All too easy. What else does Mushie know that he and the Pakis are holding back?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

When Dick Cheney Talks, Pakistan Listens

[SierraWasp]

"Cheney must have invited Musharraf quail hunting."

OMG! That's one of the funniest lines I've seen on FR in MONTHS!!! (You really nailed that one!!!)

[Marine_Uncle]

If they appear gloomy now, wait till say September after months of spring/summer offensive initiatives by the US and NATO forces occure.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I like it....keep them gloomy...send Cheney often...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We'll just have to send Cheney over more often.