Taliban leaders about to be nabbed?

Swissinfo is reporting that the leader of the Taliban, Muhammed Omar may soon be captured. US and Afghanistan forces are said to have surrounded top Taliban leaders in southwest Afghanistan. Mullah Dadullah, Mullah Brother, Mullah Abdul Hakim, Mullah Abdul Hanan and Mullah Abdul Basir are reportedly in the area along with 150 terrorists.

Mullah Dadullah and Mullah Brother are thought to be key links between the Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network as well as with Pakistani militant groups and may even have had direct contacts with bin Laden and his number two Ayman al-Zawahri.

Mullah Brother was also the one who ordered the deaths of four journalists in 2001. So, far more than 100 terrorists have been killed during fighting in the past three days.

Interior Ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal stated this operation will be a major blow to the Taliban who were planning to disrupt the September 18 parliamentary elections.


Keep up the good work guys. Run those murdering terrorists into the ground.

Update: June 24, 2005 8:00pm
Fighting has wound done. No Taliban leaders in the terrorists killed or the 20 or so captured. Yahoo News