The NY Times is reporting that CIA and Pakistan intelligence agents raided the hideout of the Taliban’s number two man — and took him alive.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Barader is currently in Pakistani custody and is the most important terrorist we’ve captured in some time. This is the guy who works directly for reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
As others have said, the fact that Pakistani intel worked so closely with us to apprehend a guy they could have gotten all along signals a new and more robust cooperation. Maybe Pakistan has finally come to the realization that the Taliban wants to topple the government of Pakistan as much as it does the one in Afghanistan.
The biggest concern I had when I first heard about this was with the interrogation. Since Obama took all the interrogation tools that mean anything off the table, we’ll have to just hope he feels like talking — which isn’t likely.
However, I’m heartened to learn that he remain in Pakistani custody where he’s being interrogated by both Pakistani and US agents.
That means when our sweet talk doesn’t work we can just walk out of the room for an hour or so and let the ISI agents work him over a little bit.
The irony here is that Obama and his ACLU cronies are merely outsourcing enhanced interrogation to a third country. Only it’s not “enhanced interrogation” in Pakistan — it’s actual torture. Barader will be praying to Allah that he’s sent to a humane facility like Gitmo.
Nevertheless, the important thing is that he’ll be made to talk one way or the other, and we can be thankful for that. The information that’s locked away inside Mullah Abdul Ghani Barader could well be what ultimately wins the war in Afghanistan.
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