http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/16/taliban.commander.captured/index.html?hpt=T1
2/16/2010 3:34:35 PM
2/16/2010 3:43:15 PM
I hope they read him his Miranda rights and get him a good lawyer before they question him.
2/16/2010 5:18:35 PM
I hope they read him his Miranda rights, cook him nice meals, get him better housing than I had in college, and get him a good lawyer before they question him.
2/16/2010 5:32:27 PM
I think you guys can chill out. ISI is interrogating him right now. They're not known for being, ah, gentle.Not that it matters. Anyone else notice that we capture the "#2 bad guy" about every three months?
2/16/2010 5:42:25 PM
^not true at all. In August we killed the #1 PAKISTANI TALIBAN leader. His replacement we managed to kill in January.
2/16/2010 8:03:59 PM
and just think, in a few months we will be able to capture or kill the next replacement!!
2/16/2010 8:05:26 PM
Hopefully we can keep killing shitty people, yes.
2/16/2010 8:16:47 PM
I suppose the plan there is to make it the job that nobody wants.Ah man I'm eligible for this promotion at work! I dunno though, it's twice the pay, but in three months I'm going to have a missile up my ass.I guess preventing them from having stable leadership will keep them on their toes.
2/16/2010 8:18:11 PM
That would be a more reassuring sentiment if we weren't constantly being told that by now the Taliban/al Qaeda is really a loose organization with very little central command.The news articles all describe this latest guy as a brilliant military mind, but how fucking brilliant do you have to be to say, "Oh, fuck, we don't really have a lot of guys or weapons, so set up some roadside bombs, rely on ambushes and hit-and-run attacks, and hide in the civilian population. Speaking of which, make sure to scare the shit out of any civilians who disagree with you."I mean, my military training consists of like a year and a half of ROTC, and I could tell the Taliban fighters that much.
2/17/2010 1:39:32 AM
As I understand it, the Taliban is fairly structured, though no one cannot be replaced by someone else. AQ on the other hand is more nebulous.Killing or capturing Taliban leaders is not they key to winning Afghanistan though. It is part of it, part that plays well in the press for being an easy to write about story, but not the key. The real turning point came where the President placed GEN McChrystal in charge.
2/17/2010 7:25:54 AM
2/17/2010 7:26:23 AM
"I am not a number... I am a Human Being!"
2/17/2010 8:52:29 AM
This guy sounds like he ran a tight ship. He's starting to sound like a decent Timothy Geithner replacement. We should put his leadership abilities to use over here instead of spending millions on him to get probably not 'millions worth' in intel.
2/17/2010 9:15:36 AM
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/02/17/another-taliban-leader-captured-in-pakistan.aspx
2/17/2010 5:45:33 PM
Where oh where can we put all these terrorists for safe-keeping?
2/17/2010 10:40:27 PM
You want to keep them safe all of a sudden?
2/18/2010 12:35:22 AM
It's never good enough for some people. . . .
2/18/2010 1:31:49 AM
President Obama's increased use of drones has raised eyebrows all around, from both the left and the right.Why is this remotely surprising though? People have differing opinions of how war non-war military action should be conducted and when you're the focal point of the decision making process, you're always going to be second-guessed.
2/18/2010 8:46:58 AM
robots have always been the future of warit's amazing it's taken this long
2/18/2010 8:59:53 AM
well they aren't robots yet, but it is a step in that direction. I always find it ironic that "we" criticize the IED teams as cowards unwilling to stand and fight and then take them out with a Predator piloted by a 2LT in Vegas.
2/18/2010 10:41:21 AM
talk like that never would have gotten us to transition from swords to guns!
2/18/2010 11:01:59 AM
Pick your best guy and meet me at the underpass. No blades.
2/18/2010 11:05:02 AM
^^^ Isn't shit talking always a consequence when the other side uses asymmetric warfare?
2/18/2010 11:20:30 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100219/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
2/19/2010 8:27:32 PM
^Were you posting any these kind of "Atta Boy" stories when Bush was president and we were fighting in Iraq?
2/19/2010 10:44:31 PM
Speaking for myself, I never felt the need to crap on terrorist-killing news when Bush was in office, as you have now started doing since Obama entered office.
2/19/2010 10:54:30 PM
^^I am happy we are leaving Iraq next year, and starting to leave Afghanistan then. Don't mind seeing some progress before we do though.
2/20/2010 2:21:59 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/22/taliban.arrest/index.html?hpt=T1
2/22/2010 11:56:07 AM
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0224/Half-of-Afghanistan-Taliban-leadership-arrested-in-Pakistan
2/25/2010 12:18:21 AM
he should give Bin Laden's location, then kindly ask that curling iron be removed from his ass
2/25/2010 4:05:21 PM
Here is the president's speech in Afghanistan today:http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/modules/wh_multimedia/wh_jwplayer/plugins/hat/hat,http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/modules/wh_multimedia/wh_jwplayer/plugins/share/share,http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/modules/wh_multimedia/wh_jwplayer/plugins/captions/captions&captions.file=&stretching=fill&menu=false">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/26/cnn-poll-jump-in-optimism-on-afghanistan/?fbid=CeukDESvFZn
3/29/2010 4:12:20 AM