{"id":17475,"date":"2010-02-16T09:38:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T14:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17475"},"modified":"2010-02-16T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T14:44:58","slug":"taliban-chief-captured-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17475","title":{"rendered":"Taliban chief captured in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news is all abuzz this morning about the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar several days ago by Pakistani intelligence services. According to Associated Press<\/a>, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is the number 2 leader of Taliban behind Mullah Omar.<\/p>\n

Typically, the Taliban denies that Baradar has been captured;<\/p>\n

“We totally deny this rumor. He has not been arrested,” Zabiullah Mujahid told the AP by telephone. He said the report of the arrest was Western propaganda aimed at undercutting the Taliban fighting against an offensive in the southern Afghan town of Marjah, a Taliban haven.<\/p>\n

“The Taliban are having success with our jihad. It is to try to demoralize the Taliban who are on jihad in Marjah and all of Afghanistan,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the Left, in the personage of Spencer Ackerman<\/a>, suggests that the best way to get intelligence from Baradar is to take him out to Applebee’s for a nice meal;<\/p>\n

Torturing Baradar \u2014 which the Pakistanis have been known to do \u2014 is counterproductive to that effort. If we treat the guy respectfully, in a demonstrated way, it might spur a reconsideration of Taliban goals. I am not counting any chickens, but any hope of a game-changing possibility will be foreclosed upon if we or our allies torture Baradar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since Pakistanis have more experience in extracting useful intelligence than Spencer Ackerman, I’ll try real hard to not tell them how to do it. Better yet, why don’t we send Ackerman to Pakistan to supervise the sessions with Baradar.<\/p>\n

I wonder if Ackerman is aware that as a leader of Taliban, Baradar encourages throwing acid on little girls for the crime of attending school. This is not a guy who will respond as we’d like just because we take him to Dairy Queen for a Blizzard milk shake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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