Taliban Back Again? A Number Three Caught & Suicide Army Ready To Go

MayorBob.

Posted to Etcetera on Fri Mar 02, 2007 at 10:23:38 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Well, that didn't take long.  No sooner did US Vice President Dick Cheney show up in Pakistan to tell President Pervez Musharaf his country was slacking in the fight against international terrorists than things happened.  The principal thing was Pakistani authorities arresting Mullah Obaidullah, the former Taliban defense minister and reported number three to Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar.  But, just like the capture of every other al-Qaeda and Taliban number three in the past, it looks like it will have little effect on the Taliban's intentions to make things bloody in Afghanistan this spring.

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