This arrest doesn’t appear to be anywhere near as important as the last several. Nor was this individual captured in Pakistan. But this is the latest news from Operation Moshtarek in Afghanistan, courtesy of a NATO press statement emailed to reporters:
A joint Afghan National Security Force (ANSF) and
Sirajuddin Haqqani of the infamous Haqqani network — which, among other aspects of bloody rampage, took New York Times reporter David Rohde hostage — may have been hit in the latest drone strike in Pakistan, Newsweek reports. DNA evidence will ultimately determine if Sirajuddin, son of the longtime More…
Perhaps one of the only big surprises in Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s December congressional testimony was his disclosure that the Taliban pays its soldiers about $300 per month, less than what the U.S.-sponsored Afghan government pays. According to Maj. Gen. David Hogg, the deputy commander for training Afghan soldiers, it’s More…
On the heels of the Mullah Baradar arrest, Sami Yousafzai and Mark Hosenball report that the Taliban’s shadow governor in Kunduz, Mullah Abdul Salam, has been arrested in Pakistan. They’ve got Taliban sources saying this:
According to the Taliban sources, at the time of his capture Mullah Salam was
The New York Times has a (somewhat disorganized) story co-written by its very knowledgeable reporter Carlotta Gall that suggests the arrest of top Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar by a U.S.-Pakistani team last week might convince the Taliban that there’s no hope in peace talks with the More…
The Christian Science Monitor carries an interview with an anonymous and recently retired senior Pakistani intelligence official, who tells us to expect more arrests like that of top Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar:
[T]he emerging relationship
According to the AP, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy commander and military leader, was captured in Pakistan ten days ago, which would be on or about February 6. Since then, as Adam Serwer reminds us, a former Bush speechwriter, Marc Thiessen, chided President Obama for More…
Newsweek has intelligently re-posted the transcript of an interview Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar — the captured Taliban leader — granted the magazine late last year. A lot of what he says is boilerplate propaganda, but in light of U.S. and Pakistani intelligence reportedly collaborating on his capture, this bit More…
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the deputy to Mullah Omar and commander of the Taliban’s military forces, was captured by U.S. and Pakistani intelligence in Karachi last week. The news has now leaked out. While you’re not going to see any Paul Bremer-esque “We got him!” preliminay end-zone dances, More…
NATO’s major diplomats and other assorted friends are in London right now to reinforce their commitment to the post-Taliban government in Afghanistan headed by Hamid Karzai. The so-called London Conference (following on the 2011 Bonn Conference) has just issued its communique, essentially a document outlining political, security, economic and More…
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