Exclusive: Another Taliban Leader Captured in Pakistan

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this strategy of actually going after the taliban in Pakistan seems to be working

Exclusive: Another Taliban Leader Captured in Pakistan

Another leader of the Afghan Taliban has been captured by authorities in Pakistan working in partnership with U.S. intelligence officials. Taliban sources in the region and a counterterrorism officials in Washington have identified the detained insurgent leader as Mullah Abdul Salam, described as the Taliban movement's "shadow governor" of Afghanistan's Kunduz province.

Taliban sources told NEWSWEEK's Sami Yousafzai that Salam was grabbed by Pakistani security forces in the city of Faisalabad about a week ago—close to the same time that Pakistani forces, again with American support, captured the Afghan Taliban's No. 2 leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Karachi. The Taliban sources said that Mullah Salam was arrested with three other militants.

According to the Taliban sources, at the time of his capture Mullah Salam was preparing to travel to meet Mullah Baradar. Some sources suggested that the arrests of the two insurgent leaders might be linked, though this could not be confirmed in Washington.

Mullah Salam was one of the Taliban's most effective commanders in northern Afghanistan and therefore one of the men most wanted by U.S. and NATO forces fighting there. Salam's soldiers are reputed to have been particularly deadly in their attacks on German troops fighting in northern Afghanistan.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/02/17/another-taliban-leader-captured-in-pakistan.aspx

[johnhp]

This is actually really good news.  It seems to me that the previous admin was more about appearing to fight terrorism than actually fighting terrorism.

[lucy]

http://hosted.ap.timesfreepress.com/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PAKISTAN_AL_QAIDA_ARREST?SITE=TNCHA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[ivanm]

http://hosted.ap.timesfreepress.com/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PAKISTAN_AL_QAIDA_ARREST?SITE=TNCHA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

I assume that we will give that pihrana the courtesy of a trial. Let the Marines give him a trial.   

[lucy]

He has been indicted already for treason, so I imagine there will be a public trial as he is not military or international terrorist, but from California....weird guy/nutcase if you ask me.

[Hollybaere]

Oh, this is not your average American turn-coat, by no means.

If you look into his history, you wil find things such as this:

Pearlman had a hippy upbringing, a brief but intense flirtation with death metal and before a sudden transformation, once referred to Muslims as “bloodthirsty, barbaric terrorists.” Pearlman was a hardcore Jewish Zionist and wrote essays and screeds bashing the Muslim faith. He even got into fights at mosques and beat up Muslim worshippers.

Pearlman, the hardcore Jewish Zionist who trashed Muslims and beat them up, grows a beard and suddenly becomes an “Al-Qaeda spokesman” - nothing suspicious here, move along!

   
Pearlman, the hardcore Jewish Zionist who trashed Muslims and beat them up, grows a beard and suddenly becomes an “Al-Qaeda spokesman” - nothing suspicious here, move along!   
   

Pearlman’s personal history and the highly suspicious nature in which he suddenly professed his conversion to Islam in a single Internet posting and later appeared on the scene as a spokesman for “Al-Qaeda” are all the ingredients needed to draw the conclusion that Pearlman is working as a double agent and most likely for Mossad.

Also:

It also emerged that Gadahn was the scriptwriter for the September 11, 2007 Bin Laden tape in which segments of Bin Laden’s previous statements were hastily slapped together and the contrast altered to make his dubious beard appear darker, an attempt to hoodwink viewers into thinking the tape was new material.


http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/300507phonytape.htm

http://noworldsystem.com/category/adam-gadahn/

[Hollybaere]

And you might want to watch this:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/GsUtvOW6SR0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/GsUtvOW6SR0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1</a>

[lucy]

I think a public trial is absolutely necessary, then, to find out what the facts are about the guy....my guess is that he will either be killed before he comes to trial or disappears in the night/

[lucy]

well, so now we are told it was Adam Gadahn after all....

[ivanm]

Here is something I picked up from EZ's front page.
 
Pakistan Seeks Identity of American Suspect   Mon, 08 March 2010 02:28:32 EST
Intelligence officials are trying to establish the identity of an American militant suspect arrested in Pakistan, but doubts grew Monday that he is Al Qaeda's U.S.-born spokesman.

I wonder if it relates to the guy in this thread Adam Gadahn.

[Hollybaere]

Here is something I picked up from EZ's front page.
 
Pakistan Seeks Identity of American Suspect   Mon, 08 March 2010 02:28:32 EST
Intelligence officials are trying to establish the identity of an American militant suspect arrested in Pakistan, but doubts grew Monday that he is Al Qaeda's U.S.-born spokesman.

I wonder if it relates to the guy in this thread Adam Gadahn.

It IS Adam Gadahn, alias Adam Pearlman.