Top Taliban captured in Pakistan

[Bugs]

How about this?

AP reports:

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, described as the No. 2 behind Taliban founder and Osama bin Laden associate Mullah Muhammad Omar, has been in Pakistan's custody for several days...

Baradar was captured in Karachi, Pakistan, in a raid by Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, with CIA operatives accompanying the Pakistanis, the Times reported. Pakistan has been leading the interrogation of Baradar, but Americans were also involved, it said.

Baradar heads the Taliban's military council and was elevated in the body after the 2006 death of military chief Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Usmani. Baradar is known to coordinate the movement's military operations throughout the south and southwest of Afghanistan. His area of direct responsibility stretches over Kandahar, Helmand, Nimroz, Zabul and Uruzgan provinces.

If confirmed, Baradar's arrest would be a major setback for the Taliban.

He may also have information on the whereabouts of Omar and bin Laden.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/15/mullah-abdul-ghani-baradar-captured-taliban_n_463308.html

It's a good think the Pakistani folks have captured this guy. They don't have to worry about being censured for using waterboards to get their information ... they go right to the electrodes.

Comments?

[DogOnPorch]

Certainly a good catch. Actual leaders are hard to come by.

[eyeball]

How about this?

It's a good think the Pakistani folks have captured this guy. They don't have to worry about being censured for using waterboards to get their information ... they go right to the electrodes.

Comments?

A good thing? It's wonderful. It's so much easier to win the War for Hearts and Minds when we use electrodes against our enemies.

[DogOnPorch]

A good thing? It's wonderful. It's so much easier to win the War for Hearts and Minds when we use electrodes against our enemies.

Awwww...wanna give the poor guy a hug? That f**ker has cut folks' heads-off himself.

[bloodyminded]

Awwww...wanna give the poor guy a hug? That f**ker has cut folks' heads-off himself.

You know, when someone objects to torture, it doesn't automatically demand that he wnats to give the man a hug.

Of course you know this.

But apologists for torture, crawling around the muck of the moral low-ground, must always make such remarks, bereft as they are of argument.

Edited February 16, 2010 by bloodyminded

[DogOnPorch]

You know, when someone objects to torture, it doesn't automatically demand that he wnats to give the man a hug.

Of course you know this.

But apologists for torture, crawling around the muck of the moral low-ground, must always make such remarks, bereft as they are of argument.

Screw that. This POS terrorist has the blood of thousands on his hands. You can suck-up to his ilk if you like. Maybe the croc will eat you last.

[eyeball]

This POS terrorist has the blood of thousands on his hands.

So do his enemies.

Why do you always suck-up to them?

[DogOnPorch]

So do his enemies.

Why do you always suck-up to them?

Why do I "suck up" to Canada? Because I'm a Canadian.

[eyeball]

Why do I "suck up" to Canada? Because I'm a Canadian.

And why does Canada have the blood of thousands on it's hands?

[DogOnPorch]

And why does Canada have the blood of thousands on it's hands?

We don't have the blood of thousands on our hands.

[eyeball]

We don't have the blood of thousands on our hands.

We hold hands with people who do. Like we do our defense, we also rely on our allies to do our dirty work for us.

We can wash our hands of that all we like but not the stain and the stench.

[DogOnPorch]

We hold hands with people who do. Like we do our defense, we also rely on our allies to do our dirty work for us.

We can wash our hands of that all we like but not the stain and the stench.

Such melodrama. Cue violins. We do not have the blood of thousands on our hands. This is just your own personal guilt projecting onto historical events. Something bad happen to you at the US border once?? Twice???

US Border Agent: Bend over...deep breath.

Scared forever.

Edited February 16, 2010 by DogOnPorch

[bush_cheney2004]

We hold hands with people who do. Like we do our defense, we also rely on our allies to do our dirty work for us.

Bullpuckey...Canada proudly holds the world sniper record for longest kill.

We can wash our hands of that all we like but not the stain and the stench.

Medals for everybody!

Edited February 16, 2010 by bush_cheney2004

[sharkman]

Such melodrama. Cue violins. We do not have the blood of thousands on our hands. This is just your own personal guilt projecting onto historical events. Something bad happen to you at the US border once?? Twice???

Scared forever.

You know, I truly believe that the self loathing would not even be overcome by a nuke on Canadian soil. We had it coming, we're holding hands with the big Satan, and whatever leftwing pablum they teach in the school system and universities these days. It's enough to make me sick to my stomach.

[M.Dancer]

And why does Canada have the blood of thousands on it's hands?

Candu efficiency....

[DogOnPorch]

You know, I truly believe that the self loathing would not even be overcome by a nuke on Canadian soil. We had it coming, we're holding hands with the big Satan, and whatever leftwing pablum they teach in the school system and universities these days. It's enough to make me sick to my stomach.

I agree. It all seems to stem from the Viet-Nam era anti-war movement and its ilk. The government is the enemy, etc.

[bush_cheney2004]

You know, I truly believe that the self loathing would not even be overcome by a nuke on Canadian soil. We had it coming, we're holding hands with the big Satan...

You are absolutely correct....the depth of their cognitive dissonance knows no bounds. With most of these guys it's just a roundabout way to legalize dope!

[bush_cheney2004]

I agree. It all seems to stem from the Viet-Nam era anti-war movement and its ilk. The government is the enemy, etc.

...and yet, they stay, taking full advantage of the programs and policies of the very same government(s).

[DogOnPorch]

...and yet, they stay, taking full advantage of the programs and policies of the very same government(s).

I'm no fan of 'big government'. Canada is a sea of bureaucrats with little reason for existence except to make one's life miserable. But this whole topsy-turvey view of history being dished out by revisionists can make a fellow reach for the Alka-Seltzer in a hurry.

Next up from this crowd...

D-Day was a war crime. Discuss.

Edited February 16, 2010 by DogOnPorch

[Guest American Woman]

Certainly a good catch. Actual leaders are hard to come by.

Agreed. By all accounts, it could be a serious blow to the insurgency.

A good thing? It's wonderful. It's so much easier to win the War for Hearts and Minds when we use electrodes against our enemies.

Where, other than in the opening post, does it say anyone, much less "we," is using electrodes on him?

[Moonlight Graham]

We don't have the blood of thousands on our hands.

I'm pretty positive Canada has killed thousands of people through the years.

[eyeball]

Where, other than in the opening post, does it say anyone, much less "we," is using electrodes on him?

We're allies and close friends with the one's wielding the electrodes.

No doubt some of us are close enough to smell the burning flesh and hear the screams but not so close we have to worry about being censured for the way our pals get our information. We're probably in the next room or just outside the chamber.

By all accounts, it could be a serious blow to the insurgency.

I doubt it.

[DogOnPorch]

I'm pretty positive Canada has killed thousands of people through the years.

Are WW1, WW2, Korea and Afghanistan now events that have put 'blood on our hands'? The term is usually trotted out when you want to portray actions as 'bad'.

D-Day was a war crime. Discuss.

Edited February 17, 2010 by DogOnPorch

[eyeball]

Are WW1, WW2, Korea and Afghanistan now events that have put 'blood on our hands'? The term is usually trotted out when you want to portray actions as 'bad'.

Or really stupid - it's clear our original idiocy was climbing into bed with a communist dictator to defeat a socialist one back in WW2. Then we got all close and intimate with Islamo-fascists to defeat the commies. But don't look now - here we are allied with the commies again, this time to defeat democracy of all things.

Thanks to Chinese electronic monitoring-and-control software, the government is able to block most opposition electronic communications when it desires,” the group said in a recent report.

http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/11315

This is largely because Western governments, such as the United States, Britain and European Union, rely on the Ethiopian government as a key African ally in the "war on terror". It is one of the largest recipients of overseas development assistance in this unstable region, receiving nearly 2.0 billion dollars in aid each year.

http://ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=42766

Given that we really don't give a shit about democracy after all why we didn't just climb into bed with that socialist dictator instead of the communist one back in WW2 is a bit of a mystery.

[Oleg Bach]

Dumbies....SO what are they doing now? The media tells the world that this guy knows where Bin Laden is, Saudi Arabias..most heroic favorite son.....so Benny simply changes location- some one should arrest the media.