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Afghanistan/South Asia
Pakistan says has arrested senior Taleban figure
2005-08-19
Pakistan has arrested a purported number 3 senior figure in the Taleban militia near the border with Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday. An intelligence official said Ustad Mohammed Yasir was arrested last week along with another man near the northwestern town of Nowshera. Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao confirmed the arrest but did not give any details.
"We can say no more!"
Sherpao and Leslie Neilson were separated at birth, I believe...
The intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the secretive nature of his job, said Yasir had been a spokesman for fugitive Taleban supreme leader Mullah Omar after the ouster of the hardline regime in late 2001. However, Yasir was not a ranking Taleban member during its rule, although he had served on a prominent council of Islamic clerics at that time.
Ah, a number 33.
The intelligence official said that Yasir, in his 50s, was previously a close aide of an Afghan Islamist faction leader, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, but joined the Taleban rebels after Sayyaf decided to back U.S.-supported Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  LOL Pr.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-08-19 12:19  

#3  They're all senior level because they possess the unprecedented ablility, to chant "Death to America" after the word "peck" in the tongue twister below.

"Peter Piper picked a peck "Death to America" of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck "Death to America" of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper Picked a peck "Death to America" of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck "Death to America" of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?"
Posted by: Poison Reverse   2005-08-19 10:33  

#2  Wasn't Sherpao one of the three stooges?

Question: Are all Tabeban senior level? Do they have a junior level or rookie club?
Posted by: Captain America   2005-08-19 08:12  

#1  Taleban hierarchical system [mos]


# 1.0 The one-eyed goon himself, El Senior Cross Eye.
# 2.1TPt assistant turbin and patch tender.
# 2.1GmTf assistant Goat milker & Turbin fluffer.
# ..
# ..
# ..
# 3.0 "We can say no more!"
Posted by: Ulomomble Ebberesh6337   2005-08-19 00:29  

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