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2008-02-11 India-Pakistan

Senior Taliban Figure Killed in Pakistan ~~(Mansoor Dadullah)~~

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Posted by Chenter Unimp7361 2008-02-11 06:44|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Top Afghan militant 'captured'
A leading Afghan Taleban fighter has been captured after a shootout with security forces in south-west Pakistan, police say.

They say Mansoor Dadullah was injured in the incident in Balochistan province - earlier reports said he had died.

Posted by Albemarle Cleaque8456 2008-02-11 07:48|| 2008-02-11 07:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe he was captured, and he died tomorrow. After being interviewed. I was just reading about some atomic particle experiment that some Russians say could distort 'time'.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-02-11 08:03|| 2008-02-11 08:03|| Front Page Top

#3 You gotta keep him alive long enough for the brain sucking machine to do its job. With mugs like this, it's extra hard, because there is so little to work with.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-02-11 08:25|| 2008-02-11 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Now the Pakistanis claim he is alive but wounded....why do I have a sinking feeling he will escape.

Posted by Chenter Unimp7361 2008-02-11 08:26|| 2008-02-11 08:26|| Front Page Top

#5
(Budda-bomp bomp bomp)
Another one bites the dust
(Bomp bomp bomp)
Another one bites the dust
And another one down and another one down
Another one bites the dust
Hey!
I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust!

Posted by Mike 2008-02-11 08:27|| 2008-02-11 08:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Report I heard said his brother was killed and he was captured, wounded in the leg. If the Paks went to this much trouble, I doubt it was to play cztch and release, but who knows now that there are more players involved. Somehow, I suspect there are advisers involved.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-02-11 08:36|| 2008-02-11 08:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Do you see what i see that anyone that falls out mith Mullah Omar can be eliminated.Anyone in line with him are in line with the ISI/Perv!!!!

Posted by Paul 2008-02-11 09:03|| 2008-02-11 09:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Interesting insight, Paul, that Omar may have used us to eliminate a competitor.

Posted by lotp 2008-02-11 09:19|| 2008-02-11 09:19|| Front Page Top

#9 QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) Pakistani forces captured and wounded a top Taliban commander Monday, while Islamabad's ambassador to Afghanistan was feared abducted in a troubled tribal border region, officials said.

The senior Taliban commander, Mullah Mansoor Dadullah, and at least five other rebels were seized in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, bordering Afghanistan, officials said.

Dadullah, the brother of the Islamist militia's slain military chief in Afghanistan, had been in charge of operations against NATO and US-led troops in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.

"He is in the custody of the security agencies along with five accomplices. They are all injured," chief Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP. "They were intercepted and chased by security forces at a Frontier Constabulary post near the Afghan border."

A military statement said Dadullah and his men were "trying to enter Pakistan" across the border. Baluchistan police chief Saud Gohar said Dadullah was hiding in a house in the village of Gowal Ismail Zai and wounded after he "resisted when our men launched an operation" early on Monday morning. One of the Taliban commander's guards was killed, he said.

In Kabul, Afghan defence ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi welcomed the news of Dadullah's capture but would not comment further.

A senior Afghan official suggested the capture was linked to a dispute between Dadullah and the Taliban's central command.

Pakistan on Saturday dismissed an unnamed senior US official's assertion that Taliban leader Mullah Omar and Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden were operating from regions along the Afghan border.

In the latest incident to rock the border region, the Pakistani envoy to Kabul, Tariq Azizuddin, went missing with his driver in the tribal district of Khyber on Monday, officials said. The Pakistani embassy in Kabul said it last had contact with the ambassador at around 11:30 am (0630 GMT) and was trying to find out what had happened.

"We know that he was coming from (the northwestern Pakistani city of) Peshawar to Kabul and we lost contact with him. We are trying our best to find out what happened," spokesman Naheem Khan told AFP. State television, quoting the foreign office, said he was feared abducted.

The chief administrative official in Khyber, Rasool Khan Wazir, said security forces had seen the envoy's car driven at speed through a checkpost with "local people sitting in the front seat". The main road between Pakistan and Afghanistan was closed for search operations, television channels said.

Posted by Steve 2008-02-11 12:30|| 2008-02-11 12:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Pakistani envoy to Kabul, Tariq Azizuddin, went missing with his driver in the tribal district of Khyber

Oh dear.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-02-11 12:46|| 2008-02-11 12:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Pakistani envoy to Kabul, Tariq Azizuddin, went missing with his driver in the tribal district of Khyber

There would be a golf club joke in there somewhere, if it wasn't so damned serious.

Posted by Seafarious 2008-02-11 12:51|| 2008-02-11 12:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Isn't there one in Kabul, Seafarious, surreptitiously maintained since the last time Kabul was civilized?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-02-11 13:14|| 2008-02-11 13:14|| Front Page Top

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