{"id":17952,"date":"2010-02-16T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/talibans_top_commander_caught_in_pakistan\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T19:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:00:06","slug":"talibans_top_commander_caught_in_pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17952","title":{"rendered":"Taliban&#39;s Top Commander Caught In Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group&#8217;s No. 2 leader behind Afghan Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar and a close associate of Osama bin Laden, was captured in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, two Pakistani intelligence officers and a senior U.S. official said.<\/p>\n<p>They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release such sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>One Pakistani officer said Baradar was arrested 10 days ago with the assistance of the United States and &#8220;was talking&#8221; to his interrogators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=123759606\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;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. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17952\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,143,144,343,148,124,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-pakistan","category-terrorism","category-violence","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}