Posted on 05/19/2006 5:10:32 AM PDT by Rosenkreutz
Top Taleban commander 'arrested'
One of the most important Taleban leaders, Mullah Dadullah, has been captured in Afghanistan, Afghan officials have told the BBC.
He is said to have been detained by international troops in the southern province of Kandahar.
The BBC's Alastair Leithead in Kabul says Mullah Dadullah is the Taleban's most senior commander.
The US-led coalition in Afghanistan has been pursuing Mullah Dadullah for more than four years...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
what i always love is these 'senior' guys are caught alive...while ordering everyone else to die fighting...
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Mullah Dadullah banana fanna Fafulla fe fi mo Mullah Dadullah.
Eyeball this.
Thanks much for the ping. More good news in the GWOT!
We have been stacking jihadis up like cordwood. I love it.
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FYI
This is great news.
LOL
"Suicide for thee, but not for me..."
Mullah Dadullah: The Military Mastermind of the Taliban Insurgency
On March 12, Sibghatullah Mujaddedi, the former president of Afghanistan and the current chairman of the upper house of parliament, was wounded in a suicide car-bomb attack in Kabul (Dawn, March 12). Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah took responsibility for the suicide attack, warning that "attacks against American puppets will continue" (Dawn, March 12). In December 2005, Dadullah warned that "we have prepared 200 young men who are ready to sacrifice and carry out suicide bombings against the U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan" (Pajhwak Afghan News, January 11).
Mullah Dadullah is a primary spokesman for the current insurgency in Afghanistan. Dadullah is one of the most combative commanders of the Taliban and has, on at least three occasions, lived through serious injuries. For instance, in early February, Yusuf Stanezai—the spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry—stated in an interview with Kabul-based Tulu TV that Dadullah had been killed during fighting in Helmand province (Tulu TV, February 03). Once again, Dadullah somehow survived. Just 10 days after the rumor of his death, Dadullah appeared on al-Jazeera television announcing his link and support to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (al-Jazeera, February 13).
Dadullah re-emerged on the Afghan scene two years after the Taliban regime was removed from power. The first time that Dadullah spoke on behalf of his ousted radical regime, his name was not unfamiliar to those who lived in Afghanistan during the five years in which the Taliban ruled the country. Most Afghanis knew Dadullah since he was the commander on the toughest battlefields against the Northern Alliance.
Both Dadullah and Taliban leader Mullah Omar are Pashtun, and Dadullah is one of the most trusted followers of Omar. According to Mullah Abdul Salaam Raketi, a former Taliban commander and a current Afghan parliament member, who spoke with Terrorism Focus on March 4, Dadullah joined the Taliban in the very beginning of the regime's formation in 1994. He lost his left leg shortly after the formation of the Taliban movement. According to Waheed Mujda, a former high-ranking member of staff in the Taliban's Foreign Ministry, "When fighting against Ismail Khan [the current minister of water and energy supply] in the first months of the Taliban's formation, Dadullah stepped on a land mine near Herat city, which caused the loss of his leg." The loss of his leg, however, did not discourage Dadullah from war, but made him even more combative.
http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369933
Yes, and Alastair Lighthead works for the BBC!
Thanks for the background information. We may laugh at their names (like Ali Wali the other day) but they are serious enemies, and I'm happy to see him in a position to do some talking.
Great news!
Yup! How ya doin?
Perhaps he'll divulge intel regarding his fellow terrorists, leading to more captures/irradications.
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