Taliban's Top Commander Captured

[alchemize]

So I read Pakistan is "interrogating" him, with US government present. Everyone is cool with that, right?

 

[spidey07]

So I read Pakistan is "interrogating" him, with US government present. Everyone is cool with that, right?

As long as the Pakistanis are the ones doing the torturing and we're just listening. Sounds like win-win to me. US gets to say it doesn't torture and we still get the intel.

 

[JTsyo]

If we waterboard all defendants, the judicial process would be a lot simpler.

I honestly think you don't have the least bit idea what your avatar stands for.

On a related note, it's amusing that the people that wrap themselves in flag are the first ones to trample the ideas that it stands for.

Too true, we don't want to win the War on Terror only to find that we've become more like them.

 

[keird]

I kinda like this idea.

Don't forget the segment shot from an Israeli sea-side resort. " Shalom, brothers, this is Mullah Baradar ... "

Then eating a platter of bacon at Denny's.

Also, swig down a tasty alcoholic beverage and place the decanter on the Koran.

 

[halik]

So I read Pakistan is "interrogating" him, with US government present. Everyone is cool with that, right?

shoot him up with thiopental and make him watch Transformers 1 and 2 over and over. Every man has his limit.

 

[yllus]

I kinda like this idea.

Don't forget the segment shot from an Israeli sea-side resort. " Shalom, brothers, this is Mullah Baradar ... "

I think the best-worst thing that could possibly be done to the morale of his fellow douches is indeed to have him at an Israeli sea-side resort... with a bunch of hot Israeli girls in bikinis suntanning in the background. That'd hurt.

shoot him up with thiopental and make him watch Transformers 1 and 2 over and over. Every man has his limit.

I could watch T1 a bunch of times (and did). T2 though, yikes.

 

[halik]

As long as the Pakistanis are the ones doing the torturing and we're just listening. Sounds like win-win to me. US gets to say it doesn't torture and we still get the intel.

I would think that's a bit transparent...

CIA has done a ton of r&d on this stuff during the cold war; there has to be a better way of extracting info than medieval torture.

 

[Kadarin]

Great but Taliban is a medusa so...

Yes, but highly skilled military commanders aren't exactly a dime a dozen.

 

[DesiPower]

Time for new leadership

 

[colonel]

Is this part of War of terror like Cheney said? Sorry might be in Africa.

 

[Dari]

Is it illegal to wrap this guy in pigskin or have him sleeping with a pig and tape it? Seems like nothing frightens these terrorists, perhaps this?

 

[NeoV]

but wait, we don't have an official 'policy' for dealing with people we capture like this, so why bother?

I'm sure the moron-squad will find some reason to be critical of this -even if this guy were to lead us straight to Bin Laden himself.

 

[Zorkorist]

Go US.

One step closer to Bin Laden.

-John

 

[Zebo]

One man doesn't stop a 1450 yr old movement. Inshallah.

 

[Acanthus]

Apparently we got 2 "Shadow Governors" of two northern afghan provinces as well during the same raid.

 

[Red Dawn]

Yes, but highly skilled military commanders aren't exactly a dime a dozen.

What you don't think there are any Taliban Commanders left over from their war against the Soviets?

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Waterboard him and he'll talk. Oh wait, we don't do that anymore.

Yea! he'll tell us everything he knows... and everything he doesn't know and some stuff inbetween.... that'll be useful.

 

[tvarad]

The pakistani army knew where he was all along and coughed the guy up when it realized the Taliban was two-timing them by being open to talking directly to NATO. The generals have been whining for some time now about how they're being left out of a possible Afghan settlement because they don't want to see their highly lucrative pimping business drying up. It could also been seen as a ploy to put pressure on the Taliban to tell them that they would lose pakistani backing if they talk to the Americans directly.

 

[werepossum]

I won't speculate about the Pakistanis - I used to spend a lot of time on their military and political boards and rather liked them - but this is good news of a couple of fronts. Obviously removing a high level commander is good news, especially alive and talking. But rather less obvious is the joint operations aspect. Pakistan has been really ticked with Obama, and a highly successful joint operation implies that the rough edges have been knocked off that relationship - especially considering that the Pakistanis are interrogating him and not a civilian prosecutor. Things are looking up.

If what so many here are saying about Pakistani double-dealing is true, then it's triple good news. It might well mean that Obama has made progress (above Bush) with them.

 

[tvarad]

If what so many here are saying about Pakistani double-dealing is true, then it's triple good news. It might well mean that Obama has made progress (above Bush) with them.

If this makes the Afghans, including the Taliban, realize that it is not the Americans or Indians or Europeans but the two-timing Pakistani generals (who have used them for nearly three decades to feather their own nests) that are their real enemy, the battle will be half won.