British SAS Special Ops Captures Two Members of Taliban’s Ruling Quetta Shura Council, Both Had Close Ties to Bin Laden…
Intel from Bin Laden’s compound?
(Daily Mail) — A crack SAS team has captured two top Taliban commanders without a shot being fired in a secret dawn raid in Afghanistan.
The 12 elite troops seized Maulawi Rahman and Maulawi Mohammed at a high-walled compound north of the remote town of Babaji in Helmand province.
Both men, who surrendered without a fight, are said to have been close confidants of Osama Bin Laden, the terror mastermind killed by US Special Forces in Pakistan last month.
The two are also believed to have been behind many bomb attacks on British and US troops in Afghanistan.
Rahman and Mohammed – members of the Quetta Shura, the Taliban’s Pakistani-based high command – were held along with three henchmen, and 80kg of raw opium packed in bales with a street value of £128,000 was also seized.
The SAS soldiers, armed with M16 assault rifles and Heckler & Koch 9mm pistols, used steel-wire ladders to scale the walls of the Taliban compound while the terror leaders, along with a number of women and children, were asleep.
A source said: ‘Even though the SAS team was in full combat gear and armed to the teeth, they did not fire a shot and none was fired at them.
‘These are very significant arrests of two of the Taliban’s key commanders. They are at the top of the Taliban hierarchy and among their most senior figures.
‘Their detention is a damaging blow to the insurgents and will severely downgrade their ¬ability to direct operations in Afghanistan.’
Posted by ZIP on Sunday, May 29, 2011, at 10:30 am | 
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Thanks to the British SAS!
I’m relieved it wasn’t the U.S finding those 2 pieces of swine because Hussein would add that to his “Obama shot Osama campaign.”
I love our special ops and the military but don’t want Obama to use them for his own benefit.
Thank you SAS!! You were the model upon which the U.S. Army Special Forces
(the “Green Berets”) were founded upon and upon which SEAL and Ranger “shock” forces are guided in part.
I’m proud of you men, and grateful that you did what you did so professionally.
Thank You!!
And the good guys score another huge enemy porn cache!
Has Obama sent lawyers to defend them?
British SAS: the last great thing of the “not so great anymore” Britain.
Do the Brits waterboard? Get the intel, then shoot the SOB’s and let them be eaten by pigs.
Oh yeah….Great job SAS! You ROCK! Thank you.
RealWest…the SAS were a derivative of the British Desert Rats in WWII.
The Green Berets were officially recognized by Kennedy in the 60s.
I wonder, is this a pay off from the intel from the Osama “mansion”?
Now turn the SAS loose on some of the jihadi thugs/agitators within the U.K. Two results: jihadis realize they dont own the U.K. and the Brits can be tell the world they’re not going to take this crap anymore.
Great job!!
Brilliant! way to go, guys!
The sad truth is that there are probably 15 “sand monkeys” ready to take their place who are most likely more radical and devious than their predecessors. Until we beat them down so ruthlessly that they won’t play with us any more, we can expect ops like this every few months. When will we deploy our own capable brand of scorched earth tactics to send these fleas back to the age of MO and stop playing patty cakes with these recidivistic reptiles?