Posted on 02/17/2010 10:12:01 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Another high-ranking leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan has been captured by a joint U.S.-Pakistani intelligence operation in Pakistan, Fox News has confirmed.
The capture of the Taliban leader, Mullah Salam, first reported by Newsweek magazine, comes on the heels of news that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's No. 2, had been captured early this month in Pakistan.
A Pakistani officer told the Associated Press that Baradar "was talking" after his capture, but there is no indication that he provided information leading to the apprehension of Salam, who is known as a "shadow governor" in his region of Afghanistan.
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Picking them up, or off, one at a time, unless we get a gathering of scum, in which case we get a wholesale bunch with one JDAM.
I love modern technology but am still a fan of napalm, which in the case of Al Qaeda and the Taliban brings me back to H. Rap Brown’s old saying, “Burn, Baby, Burn.”
Hopefully, they keep talking.
ISI is letting these captures happen and the irony is that none of the US media is asking or delving into why.
How many mullahs are there? Is it really just a prefix like “mister” in arabic?
The ISI is just punking the US to keep the Taliban under control and the US Taxpayer dollars coming in...I don’t believe a word from either ISI or Obama’s administration.
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