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January 16, 2007

Big Fish: Top Taliban Spokesman Captured

Dr Muhammad Hanif is the Taliban's chief "spokesman". I've read dispatches from him before, all of which claimed he was propagandizing from Peshawar, Pakistan. One more big fish down, hundreds to go. BBC:

Afghan intelligence agents say they have arrested a leading spokesman for the Taleban near the Pakistan border.
Intelligence service spokesman Sayed Ansari named him as Dr Muhammad Hanif, who has been speaking for Afghanistan's former rulers since October 2005....
Dr Hanif has been highly active over the past year, regularly e-mailing news organisations with the Taleban's versions of events in the east of the country.
A man called Qari Mohammad Yousuf has performed similar functions for the Taleban in the south.

Hat tip: Vancouver

Posted by: Rusty at 09:28 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 not fair to call them a fish unless you get to scale them and gut them.

Posted by: dr. akim ullshitbay at January 16, 2007 11:25 AM (WT8ey)

2 Hey,, I thought the Tail-a-ban spokesman was enrolled in, what was it,,,, Yale or some such....

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at January 16, 2007 01:21 PM (chQH7)

3 This bastard tried to downplay bombastically every coalition/NATO victory. Let's see if he can downplay his own arrest. Ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha

Bloody good news.

Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at January 16, 2007 03:06 PM (vixLB)

4 An impotent Taliban "Big Fish" whose mighty jihad against the West consisted of sending out inane emails.

Oooh! The BBC is right. We should be afraid. Very afraid. Snort!

Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at January 16, 2007 05:45 PM (abVz3)

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