{"id":189764,"date":"2010-02-16T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/16\/another-failure-of-obamas-antiterror-policy\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:48:00","slug":"another-failure-of-obamas-antiterror-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/16\/another-failure-of-obamas-antiterror-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"<snark> Another Failure of Obama&#8217;s Antiterror Policy <\/snark>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/16\/world\/asia\/16intel.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">captured the Taliban&#8217;s military chief and 2<sup><span>nd<\/span><\/sup> in command, Mullah Abdul <span>Ghani<\/span> <span>Baradar<\/span><\/a> in Karachi, Pakistan:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Taliban\u2019s top military commander was captured several days ago in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence forces, according to American government officials.<\/p>\n<p>The commander, Mullah Abdul <span>Ghani<\/span> <span>Baradar<\/span>, is an Afghan described by American officials as the most significant Taliban figure to be detained since the American-led war in Afghanistan started more than eight years ago. He ranks second in influence only to Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban\u2019s founder and a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">close associate of <span>Osama<\/span> bin Laden before the Sept. 11 attacks<\/span>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>After 911, he was running around for about 6\u00bd years under Bush.  Obama got him after only a bit more than 1 year.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;<span>lt<\/span>;tinfoil hat&gt;I&#8217;m <span>beginning<\/span> to wonder if Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> made a political decision not to capture bin Laden because it kept people scared, and scared voters are Republican voters.&amp;<span>lt<\/span>;\/tinfoil hat&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have captured the Taliban&#8217;s military chief and 2nd in command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Karachi, Pakistan: The Taliban\u2019s top military commander was captured several days ago in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence forces, according to American government officials. The commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,981,1050,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-civil-war","category-snark","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}