From a Pashtun point of view, Petraeus should be shot by relatives from his mistress’s family,” the Taliban official explained.
“From a Shariah point of view, he should be stoned to death.
A stony-faced Taliban official burst into laughter at the mention of the Petraeus affair during an interview with AFP in northwest Pakistan this week.
Read: CIA chief Petraeus sex scandal amuses Taliban - Emirates 24/7
- 94-0 Senate vote confirming Petraeus as CIA director source
» The big shuffle continues: With Robert Gates’ retirement, and Leon Panetta imminently poised to become the new Secretary of Defense, the Senate has voted to confirm General David Petaeus to take Panetta’s old job. Petraeus had been serving as the Commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, but will be departing to become the number one man of the government agency we all think of when we think about high-level secrecy. Of note in this confirmation — ninety-four to nothing! Even in a thoroughly divided Washington, it’s clear Petraeus is still one of the most politically popular people to stand in support of, no matter the political party.
Mulvi Kabir, the former Taliban governor in Afghanistan’s Nangahar Province, and a key figure in the Taliban regime was recently captured in Pakistan, two senior US officials tell Fox News. Kabir, considered to be among the top ten most wanted Taliban leaders, was apprehended in the Naw Shera district of Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province by Pakistani police forces.
A senior U.S. military official in Afghanistan called Kabir a “significant detention”.
FoxNews Exclusive: Major Taliban Operative Captured
news broken by FoxNews yet FoxNews contributor Bill Kristol could not be found for comment. : /
The statement said it was to avenge the killing of two Islamists and “Muslim martyrs.” “The Pakistani Taliban announced its responsibility for the New York attack in revenge for the two leaders al-Baghdadi and al-Mahajer and Muslim martyrs,” said a statement on a website commonly used by Islamists. Reuters
More than 400 inmates — many of them Taliban insurgents — escaped from the main prison in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar overnight through a tunnel, an official said Monday.
“We asked him, ‘Is this you?’ Mohammad Ashan answered with an incredible amount of enthusiasm, ‘Yes, yes, that’s me! Can I get my award now?’” recalled SPC Matthew Baker.
Taliban commander turns self in… for reward on ‘Wanted’ poster - The Washington Post
Hang them alive,“ said 14-year-old Hazratullah Khan, who lost his right leg below the knee in a car bombing on his way home from school. "Slice the flesh off their bodies and cut them into pieces. That’s what they have been doing to us.”
ABC News has learned that the Obama administration has decided to give the war in Iraq – currently known as Operation Iraqi Freedom – a new name.
The new name: “Operation New Dawn.”
In a February 17, 2010, memo to the Commander of Central Command, Gen. David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the “requested operation name change is approved to take effect 1 September 2010, coinciding with the change of mission for U.S. forces in Iraq.”
You can read the memo – a copy of which was sent to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen – HERE .
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