The Taliban's top military commander has been arrested in a joint CIA-Pakistani operation in Pakistan in a major victory against the insurgents as U.S. troops push into their heartland in southern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.
I say thank God! (If they can praise Allah? I can thank God.)
The bottom line....is that (we) supposedly have this guy in custody. And (we) apparently have had him for the past ten days. According to the recently released news reports "he is talking." Which brings a lot of questions to my mind.
Not the least of which being the first question. Which is complicitness of the media. Yes, I say that there is complicitness of media afoot here. According to these reports, the New York Times has known since his capture that he was in American/Pakistani custody, yet they sat on the story in order to provide American intelligence agencies the opportunity to interrogate him.
This is certainly the right thing to do and an admirable assessment made by someone in the NYT. But who and why made that decision. And why now. I raise this question for the single most reason of their previous history and consideration on two points. The first consideration being that the reports today say that Pakistani officials could have captured this individual at any time they wanted to. Which raises the question of why didn't they capture him before now.
The next and more important question in my mind, is why the New York Times and others elected to print the intelligence information that we had at the time on Osama Bin Ladin? Specifically, the fact that we had zeroed in on his cell phones and were in the process of taking him down to capture him.
That news release by the NYT immediately lost all hope and ability for our intelligence and military forces of ever capturing Bin Ladin at that time or subsequently. Yet now? With Barack Obama in the White House, the NYT is more than willing to do "the right thing" and keep their mouths shut while we hunt these bastards down. Am I one of the few who even sees the hypocrisy of practice being displayed by the media here?
Don't get me wrong, I am sincerely glad that we now have this murdering bastard in our hands. But I can't help but wonder how many others we could have had, including Bin Ladin and how many American lives could have been saved, if not for a complicit liberal media that is politically driven and was dead set against everything that the Bush administration put forth.
"If Pakistani officials had wanted to arrest him, they could have done it at any time," said Sher Mohammad Akhud Zada, the former governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province and a member of the Afghan parliament. "Why did they arrest him now?"
That is a troubling observation to me. Much as it is that the NYT's actions almost nine years ago, allowed Bin Ladin to escape into the obscure Pakistani border regions where he remains free to this day.
Make no mistake about it, there is now a covert war afoot in Pakistan. A war that would have been immediately denounced had it been launched by the previous administration (when it should have been). But it is being carried out there now under a news blackout by a complicit media that is doing all in it's power to prop up their hollow man president.
I for one can't wait to see how this capture plays out over the next several weeks. And how it will be portrayed by this administration and the media. I am a firm believer in the old adage....."that it is amazing what can be accomplished, when no one is concerned with who is going to get the credit for it." But I cannot help but believe that the recent successes of this administration have been a construct of a complicit media.
And if the following is revealed to be the truth?
"We totally deny this rumor. He has not been arrested," Zabiullah Mujahid told the AP by telephone. He said the report was Western propaganda aimed at undercutting the Taliban fighting against an offensive in the southern Afghan town of Marjah, a Taliban haven.
"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.
Then the credibility of this administration and it's media are in serious doubt of ever being believed again. .
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