It's amazing we live in such a high tech world and these guys are able to run all over the region nearly undetected. They deliver videos, audios, and messages....and somehow, manage to slip into darkness. I realize that area may be hard to track the Taliban or Al Qaeda but also feel they are right on the border......staying just far enough into Pakistan to keep the coalition from reaching them. It's amazing that Cheney would travel to Pakistan to rattle Musharraf's cage, followed by the capture of a major Taliban leader in Pakistan. We have unfinished business in Afghanistan and should have 130,000 troops there, instead of Iraq. Now that we're in Iraq, we have two messes to clean up.

About time! This will probably be the end of it though. Pakistan will only do a minimal amount and then slack off once the pressure eases.

Well,if its true,then Cheney's trip was worthwhile.About time he did something right !!

The Indians had been saying all along that all the terrorists in the world are holed up in Pakistan and Mussaraf is the biggest terrorist of all. But who listened. The "Democracy" word is one of convenience only to U.S. interests. Any "legally" elected democracy that opposes the U.S. interest is part of the axis of evil and any dictator that supports U.S. interests is to bring stability. HAHA what a joke!

This can't be the same Vice President Richard Cheney mocked on Letterman, lied about in the media and torn to malevolent shreds on wacko sites like Huffington can it?
A simple Vice President keeping Americans safe and having terrorists arrested in nations protecting them?

Dick Cheney are you sure?

I suppose Hollywood will give him an Oscar to like Al Gore or a Nobel Prize like Jimmy Carter as he actually is making the world a safe place for real people.

Cheney's visit has nothing to do with the capture of this guy. What did Cheney do? He can't even find his way out of the bathroom.

The people who hate Cheney and Bush are speaking volumes about who they are and none about Cheney and Bush.

Wow! Whenever US get little too upset, Musharraf dilivers a little or there is an attack on his life. So predictable. Musharraf is good at milking a US cow. I am sure, more money is on the way for Pakistan.

why the hell would WND or anyone else report this so the other major players can read about this and go into hiding?

CHENEY DIDN'T HAVE A THING TO DO WITH THE ARREST OF A TOP TALIBAN LEADER. I HOPE HE SAW THIS SENSELESS WAR FOR WHAT IT REALLY IS. NOW, MAYBE HE SHOULD SPEND SOME TIME IN OUR VETERAN'S HOSPITALS. THANK GOD FOR THE BOB WOODRUFF'S THAT ARE BRINGING TO LIGHT THE PLIGHT OF THE BRAVE AND GALLIANT HEROES WHO HAVE SERVED OUR COUNTRY AND WHAT THEY FACE WHEN THEY RETURN HOME. YOU DON'T SEE THE RICH OR FAMOUS ENLIST IN OUR VOLUNTARY DRAFT. CHENEY IS JUST AS BIG OF A WASTE AS OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF THAT SHOULD BE IMPEACHED!!!

Cheney threaten to bomb Pakistan back to the stoneage again if President Pervez Musharraf didn't jump?

Such an obident puppet dictaor leader

Please infom the Cheney Haters-in-Chief Rosie O'Donnell and Joy Behar of "The View" that Dick Cheney is earning his keep just fine, thank you. Cheney has been vilified by them as if HE were a terrorist. Unlike them, Cheney knows what he's doing. What are they going to say when we get bin Laden? Dumb luck? Our VP derserves some credit--he risked his life and rattled some cages over there. Five and a half years since 9/11 and still no attacks? Every night I can go to sleep safely, I thank God for Bush and Cheney. History is going to judge them very differently than the daily media vultures. Wait and see.

Maybe the best way to deal with the whole situation would be to just refuse to give Pakistan another dollar until they deliver Bin Laden to us. Probably wouldn't take long for them to round him up if we cut off the funding and stuck with it. When will the US quit BUYING Allies!!

Anyone ever hear of tossing a barking dog a bone?

Ruth,
Are you aware of the fact that during the 1980s (Reagan era) the US was the biggest sponsor of Jihad in the world? At that time the Muslim terrorists were your allies. If the US had not organized, armed and funded the Jihadis, there would be no Al Qaeda.....

This sounds pretty simple to me. Pakistan knows where every one of the most wanted terrorists is and Cheney said "arrest these guys or all of our deals are off" meaning financial, military, energy, etc. until you start arresting them. That got Musharraf's attention. Somehow, I don't see Dick Cheney in a superman cape....

Don't forget it took over 9 years for the US Army to capture Geronimo. UBL will be caught too.

Brian Ross:
You reported the announcement of Pakistan's "arresting" this #3 of the Taliban & implications that the arrest was connected with Vice President Cheney's actions. Instead, his "spin" machine is working overtime. It's as likely that U.S. intelligence, most likely NSA, identified & located him. OUR intelligence found him, not ISI. I suspect Musharraf is walking a razor blade and that Mushrarraf has done all he can.

The U.S. engineered a lucrative and strategically "dangerous" nuclear exchange with India -- and Pakistan's primary concern IS with a more powerful India. My guess is the Pakistanis have seen Bush squander his chances in Afghanista & the India American Nuclear deal was the last straw. I believe the suicide bombing at Bagram Air Base was "payback." The bombing was engineered by the Taliban, but my money is on a renewed connection between ISI, the Taliban and al-Qaeda. General Gur, an ISI leader, has ofen been credited as being the "man" behind bin Laden's "tradecraft." As the Americans have continued to lean on Musharraf, but not rewarded Pakistan, those connections have been renewed. Those internal intelligence forces can read the tea leaves, and know Bush is on the ropes. Musharraf has undoubtedly also been warned by these factions: cool your coordination wth the U.S. or you're gone.

If these factions WERE connected with protecting the Taliban's #3, then another part of this might be: Mr. Musharraf, you have very serious problems inside your ISI. Without divulging the entire picture, Cheney goes to Afghanisan to turn in #3. The ISI payback was Bagram. Bagram wasn't intended to "get Cheney," as it's obvious only a highly sophisticated action could do that. It was a signal to Cheney: WE knew you WERE there, and that YOU couldn't leave, and we just wanted to make sure YOU knew, WE knew.

Mr. Ross, if these suggestions are even half right, the implications are far greatere than capturing the Taliban's #3. Once the connection with Pakistan evaporates, we've REALLYgot trouble in Afghanistan. It sounds like the connection has begun to unravel, and that's serious.

The capture of one Taliban "leader", if he is a leader, is no reason for celebration. After all, Musharraf took A.Q. Khan off the streets only to allow him back to his celebrated status in Pakistan. If anything, the Taliban was a token gift for for aid received.

Way to go, Vice President Cheney. Hopefully, this dirtbag is headed for some interrogation right now.

When you people learn? They don't
hate the americans, just the gov.
If you found yourself getting killed because they are bombing the gov. it is only because the gov. placed you in front to save his self.

Wow! Pretty generous and complimentary report by the so-called "liberal" media.

Hitler learned the hard way. Do not fight two fronts. Did we learn from this history? Do not fight two fronts.
During World War Two we were forced to. So Bush two fronts? How smart are we?

Before we canonize the VP, let's remember the stick he wielded over Musharraf: 'if you don't cooperate, the Democratic Congress will reduce foreign aid to Pakistan.' Can ABC get that right? Probably not.

Why not capture Bin Laden? The whole world has been told where he is? Why not hold Musharraf's toes to the fire to get him once and for all? I wonder if OSL is dead as some claim. It does seem odd that Bush isn't going after him anymore. More propaganda to keep us scared of the 'terr-er-ists...'

If Cheney's visit to Pakistan is all it took to arrest Taliban leaders, why didn't Cheney visit four years ago?????? Oh, that's right, if he had gone there four years ago, he and all of his buddies wouldn't have made millions of dollars from the war.

All the idiots come out of the wood work with their conspiracy theories and facts twisted to hell. Is paranoia the norm with these people?

Realist said: "
Are you aware of the fact that during the 1980s (Reagan era) the US was the biggest sponsor of Jihad in the world? At that time the Muslim terrorists were your allies. If the US had not organized, armed and funded the Jihadis, there would be no Al Qaeda....."

So, then, instead of trying to CONTAIN the problem, which was our foreign policy at the time and the reason we supported Bin Laden (not because we thought he was such a great guy), we should have invaded Iran, Iraq, and any other problem nations? Maybe we should have implemented the Bush doctrine of killing our enemies instead of the policy of CONTAINMENT. However, what doesn't make any sense is why someone who recognizes that CONTAINMENT is a bad foreign policy, would then want to run away from Iraq, and go back to a strategy of CONTAINMENT.

sure seems coincidental the #3 man is caught right after cheney leaves.. thats almost like, ok here ya go, now shut the heck up..

a dozen more trips to pakistan and cheney will get osama and all the others ! haha