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Taliban Responds to WikiLeaks

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Tue, 07/27/2010 - 7:35pm
Taliban Responds to WikiLeaks - Mushtaq Yusufzai, The Daily Beast.

Responding to WikiLeaks' release of tens of thousands of pages of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, a high-ranking Taliban commander rejected reports that the Taliban had any links with Pakistan's spy agency.

"Look, we're at war and would like to get aid from anyone to fight against the U.S. and its allies who invaded our homeland," Sirajuddin Haqqani, a senior leader of the Haqqani network, told The Daily Beast on Monday, denying any existing links with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, known by its acronym ISI...

Haqqani, who spoke by phone from an undisclosed location, is the oldest son of veteran Afghan Taliban leader Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani network, a violent Taliban faction that U.S. officials allege is operating both in Kabul and the Pakistani province of Waziristan. The younger Haqqani has a $5 million bounty on his head. The commander said the group had learned about the leaked documents through the media...

More at The Daily Beast.

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Brett Patron

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 12:02pm

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<< This led Stewart to ask,<i> "How does a soldier sit around lip syncing to Lady Gaga all day, and not run afoul of 'don't ask don't tell'? That has GOT to be a substitute for telling, no?"</i> >>

Can a quote from a link be nominated for Quote of the Week?

Brett Patron

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 10:51am

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The Daily Beast? *giggle*

Oh...that was a serious article?

As usual, the comments are an amusing break from the hum-drum.