Taliban commander caught in Afghanistan

[Ban Hammer 13,340]

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan soldiers caught a senior Taliban commander at a checkpoint who was wearing a burqa, while NATO forces on Wednesday fought Taliban militants in the second day of the alliance's largest-ever offensive in Afghanistan.

Mullah Mahmood, who is accused of helping the Taliban detonate suicide bombs, was caught Tuesday in Kandahar province while wearing the all-encompassing Islamic veil worn here by women, NATO said.

"Alert (Afghan) soldiers at this checkpoint spotted the oddity and quickly arrested him," NATO said.

Mahmood was caught trying to leave the Panjwayi area of Kandahar province — the site of a large NATO battle last fall where hundreds of Taliban fighters were killed, NATO said.

"The capture of this senior Taliban extremist is another indicator that a more normal life is returning to the Zhari and Panjwayi districts and a testament to the great work the (Afghan army) is achieving," said Maj. Gen. Ton van Loon, the southern commander of NATO-led troops.

Meanwhile, some 5,500 NATO and Afghan soldiers fought Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, the world's biggest poppy-growing region. NATO hopes the operation can help establish security in a lawless region ruled by a Taliban shadow government and drug traffickers.

"We've established a presence and in some areas it's a heavy presence, and we're trying to disrupt the Taliban's senior leadership in the area and try to separate them from trying to rally" the Taliban's locally recruited soldiers, said Col. Tom Collins, the spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force.

One British soldier and four Taliban fighters were killed on Tuesday, the operation's opening day.

On Wednesday, Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces arrested a suspected al-Qaida bomb expert and five other terrorist suspects in eastern Afghanistan.

The U.S.-led coalition had information indicating "a suspected terrorist with strong ties to al-Qaida" and to a group that helped militants along Afghanistan's border region was inside an eastern Afghan compound near Jalalabad, it said.

"The suspected terrorist was a (bomb-making) expert and logistics officer for the Tora Bora Front, which facilitates the movement of fighters from Pakistan to Afghanistan," the U.S. said. No shots were fired and no one was hurt during the raid.

Separately, U.S.-led coalition troops detained five men suspected of involvement in anti-government activities and "known terrorist groups," in the eastern city of Khost, the coalition said without elaborating.

The troops uncovered a cache of grenades and armor-piercing rounds during their search, the statement said. No injuries occurred during the raid.

In southern Zabul province, Taliban militants attacked a police checkpoint and wounded four policemen Wednesday, said provincial police chief Abdul Ghafar. The militants fled after the attack, which occurred near Qalat, Zabul's capital.

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[almaty 19]

good news...give him a good spanking too..like they use to do to the women

[Ban Hammer 13,340]

good news...give him a good spanking too..like they use to do to the women

um spanking.......that has multiple meanings, almaty

[almaty 19]

good news...give him a good spanking too..like they use to do to the women

um spanking.......that has multiple meanings, almaty

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[Saddle Bronc 124]

good news...give him a good spanking too..like they use to do to the women

um spanking.......that has multiple meanings, almaty

Um, I think Dean meant the kind with 100 slaps from a broad-strapped cat-o-9-tails.

[Ban Hammer 13,340]

good news...give him a good spanking too..like they use to do to the women

um spanking.......that has multiple meanings, almaty

Um, I think Dean meant the kind with 100 slaps from a broad-strapped cat-o-9-tails.

i was wondering if he was advocating prison "spankings"