Comments on: Another top Taliban commander arrested by Pakistan?

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Red Mosque: 10-year-old zombie tells father she wants to die a martyr

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:35:46 +0000

[...] Meanwhile, Afghan intel tells the Beeb that no fewer than four “senior associates” of Mullah Omar have been arrested. Anyone want to guess where? Here’s a hint: it’s the same city where the last two Taliban chieftains were arrested, which, coincidentally, also occurred shortly after the U.S. did a little arm-twisting on Musharraf. Last time it was Cheney who did the twist; this time it was probably that NSC meeting last month that Musharraf attended that did the trick. (Well, that and the Red Mosque standoff.) Why, it’s almost as though they know where all these turds are and can round them up at a moment’s notice when they feel sufficiently moved to do so. [...]

By: Robert B. Steely, MSgt, USAF

Robert B. Steely, MSgt, USAF — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:34:17 +0000

The Taliban Zarqawi’s last video…

H/T: Hot Air: From tonight’s ABC World News. Allegedly it was recorded 36 hours before we finally zapped him, after he crossed over into southern Afghanistan from — where else? — the Pakistani city of Quetta, also known as Taliban……

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Afghan forces have “Taliban Zarqawi” surrounded in village? Update: Al Jazeera confirms?

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:35:41 +0000

[...] They’ve had him surrounded since Saturday, apparently; I wonder if this pinch last month had anything to do with finding him. Exit question: Anyone here actually believe we’re going to close the deal and take this animal out? It always seems in these situations that either they weren’t there to begin with or they were there but managed to slip away. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Breaking: U.S. forces attack senior AQ leader’s hideout in Afghanistan?

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:33:13 +0000

[...] Have those two big Taliban birds already sung? The arrest of Mullah Akhund, the group’s number three, wasn’t announced until Thursday afternoon, but according to another Blotter article he was taken into custody “only hours” after Cheney left Pakistan for Afghanistan on Monday. So conceivably, they’ve been working him over for days. Which leads to two questions: (1) why would his arrest have been announced publicly before the U.S. had a chance to act the intelligence he’s (presumably) giving them, and (2) wouldn’t all senior AQ leaders have gone to ground immediately after word of the arrest got out, knowing that the U.S. could soon have a bead on them? [...]

By: Cop The Truth

Cop The Truth — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:38:59 +0000

al-Qaeda *gasp* in Pakistan???…

Pakistani security forces have sure been busy since VP Cheney visited recently. Cheney apparently asked the Pakistanis to do more to stop a-Q before the much-vaunted Spring offensive starts. Reuters reported yesterday that Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, a h…

By: KelliD

KelliD — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:32:50 +0000

Mullah Obaidullah, Amir Khan Haqqani, and Abdul Bari come on down. You’ve just won an all expense paid trip to beautiful Club Gitmo!

By: x95b10

x95b10 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:22:29 +0000

Did they raid UC Berkley?

By: Kralizec

Kralizec — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:58:49 +0000

I wrote about Quetta as a Taliban rat’s nest in yesterday’s post, but to fully appreciate just how farcical is the suggestion that the Pakistanis needed the CIA to tell them where these guys are, revisit this NYT Sunday Magazine piece from October….

From the description, it seems that what the Vice President and the CIA did was like “the display of the instruments,” which I understand was a formal step in the procedures of the Inquisition.

By: fogw

fogw — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:17:57 +0000

I think I’ll catch this story tonight on Perky Katie’s broadcast. Ya know, to get all the details.

What’s that? Her lead story is Bush couldn’t bounce a deflated basketball.

Nevermind.

By: PinkyBigglesworth

PinkyBigglesworth — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:09:30 +0000

“Isn’t it amazing how quickly they were able to find these men?” scoffed one intelligence source familiar with the Cheney meeting.

Capt. Renault: “Round up the usual suspects!”

By: Tony737

Tony737 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:05:59 +0000

That’s great, Mushy, you’re doin’ good catchin’ those taliban guys, but how ’bout bringin’ in some al qaeda # 2’s and 3’s … or 1’s?

I think Cheney made him an offer he could’nt refuse. Mushy’s choice: Either work for us and piss off the jihadis, or work with the jihadis and piss off US. He chose door #1. Smart man.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:31:23 +0000

Mullah Obaidullah – moolah! More to come…

Dick Cheney is really mean. I admire that in a person!!

honora on March 2, 2007 at xx:xx PM

But where’s Bin Laden!!!…. Uh… Halliburton!!!!

(/my best impression of a liberal’s reaction)

RightWinged on March 2, 2007 at 1:33 PM

That’s right – he’s dead. A HuffPoo commenter said so. He claimed that Mr. Cheney had him killed because he knew too many of our secrets…

I’m liking that Mr. Cheney more and more by the minutes…

By: Anton

Anton — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:58:22 +0000

Well, at least CNN has finally posted this story.

Still nothing on Drudge, though.

Nice scoop, Allahpundit.

By: see-dubya

see-dubya — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:42:00 +0000

Crap. Here's the link I meant.

By: Valiant

Valiant — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:41:12 +0000

Great idea, Honora!

By: see-dubya

see-dubya — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:39:58 +0000

Haqqani is big. He's like a rock star, on the order of Mullah Dadullah.

By: E L Frederick (Sniper One)

E L Frederick (Sniper One) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:38:52 +0000

Musharraf should of been read the riot act. Since that darn treaty with the tribal leaders in Waziristan he's been nothing but an appeaser and thereby a terrorist enabler.

By: georgej

georgej — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:37:47 +0000

Honora pontificates: “Perhaps Dick should make a visit to Baghdad and give Maliki a good talking to; then he stop by London and read Blair’s beads….there’s no end to the good this man can do!!!”

For once, even when you’re being sarcastic and don’t really mean it, you made sense.

By: honora

honora — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:35:02 +0000

Perhaps Dick should make a visit to Baghdad and give Maliki a good talking to; then he stop by London and read Blair’s beads….there’s no end to the good this man can do!!!

By: RightWinged

RightWinged — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:33:18 +0000

But where’s Bin Laden!!!…. Uh… Halliburton!!!!

(/my best impression of a liberal’s reaction)

By: georgej

georgej — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:30:13 +0000

I have no doubt that Cheney read Mussie the riot act.

Likewise, I have no doubt that this “surge” of arrests is connected to Cheney’s visit.

I don’t know what is going to disappoint the Huffpoop posters more: Cheney not being killed or this surge of arrests after his little talk with Mussie.

By: BohicaTwentyTwo

BohicaTwentyTwo — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:22:11 +0000

How much that Cheney had this intel in his back pocket during his visit and he waited until Musharaf said, “We may have Al Qaeda and Taliban in my country, but we wouldn’t know where to start looking.”