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Dead Taliban Leader Was Training U.S. Recruits
May 14, 2007 5:03 PM
Thirty-six hours before he was killed by U.S. forces, Taliban Commander Mullah Dadullah said he was training American and British citizens to carry out suicide missions in their home countries, according to a videotape interview to be broadcast on ABC News' "World News" Monday.
"We will be executing attacks in Britain and the U.S. to demonstrate our sincerity," he told an Afghan interviewer, "to destroy their cities as they have destroyed our cities."
Video Listen to the Taliban Leader's Final Words.
A senior U.S. official told the Blotter on ABCNews.com that recent intelligence reports confirmed Dadullah's claim that U.S. citizens were being trained in Taliban and al Qaeda camps.
"The number is small, not large, but even once is dangerous," the official said.
In the interview, Dadullah said, "This is our religious and moral duty to train suicide bombers against the nuclear power of the infidels, and they will be used when they are needed, whether they are one, 10 or 20."
Click Here for Full Blotter Coverage.
A day and a half after the interview, U.S. forces carried out a helicopter assault on Dadullah's hiding place in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. Dadullah's bullet-riddled body was put on display by Afghan officials to confirm he was dead.
U.S. military officials said Dadullah had been tracked from the Pakistani city of Quetta across the border into Afghanistan, where he granted his last interview.
"His ego probably got the better of him," said ABC News counterterrorism consultant Alexis Debat. "The U.S. and Pakistan have done an excellent job of intercepting the couriers moving taped messages from al Qaeda and Taliban leaders. This is why we have not seen Osama bin Laden in some time," Debat said.
May 14, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (83)
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How can you discredit BUSH by saying he is responsible for the bad things if you are not going to say he is responsible for positive things in the GWOT? Onesided views are narrow minded!~
Posted by: BAMBAM | May 14, 2007 6:51:57 PM
Surely we know where some of these terrorist training camps are in Afghanistan from our aerial surveys. So why aren't we bombing them?
Posted by: Tom | May 14, 2007 6:57:29 PM
Remember the fall of the Roman Empire? Well the US is headed in the same direction... perhaps not in my lifetime, but certainly in my children's.... Unless we again fight for freedom, democracy, and the AMERICAN way! You "Can't we all just get along" Rodney King supporters can blubber all you want about how unfair life is.... while the rest of us fight to perserve your right to a liberal opinion.... whether we like it or not.
Tax the rich? No. Tax the poor? No. Tax the Liberals who cost the most to support? Damn Fine Answer! Hello Congressmam ..... lets write the bill.
Wait... whats that? Choose #1 for English? Why do I have to sit on the phone, unproductively waiting for the spanish translation to play out? That just costs more time and money.... Oops.. Here we go again...
Posted by: DevilsMix | May 14, 2007 7:04:24 PM
Insurgents need MONEY to support their cause. The U.S. should make an all out push to expose ANY world financial group,bank or organization that have even the remotest link to funneling or by proxy supporting links to terrorists and their sympathizers. The path may lead to many "supporters" of our government...NO ONE should be exempt whether they are Middle East "friends" or European global bankers and that should include all Asian banking networks. Follow the money and you'll find those despicable people who are in it for the buck.
Posted by: Ben | May 14, 2007 7:15:11 PM
I wonder what the Taliban think about the picture of their one-legged ex-leader being wrapped up all pretty in pink?
I say it's a good look for a coward terrorist.
Posted by: One_American | May 14, 2007 7:23:16 PM
Cudos to the troops and cudos to President Bush for staying the course. You will never here this from the "drive-by media" (as Rush would say), and from anyone else for that matter. The facts are that Clinton, et. al., were asleep at the wheel, and did not recognize that Al Queda and their ilk have been at war with us for some time. Lets finish the job!
Posted by: Allen | May 14, 2007 7:58:00 PM
Bush gets credit? Says who? You supporters are quite moronic to give credit to someone who has no sense of war, hell he would not even go to war when he had the chance. The credit goes to the troops and the intel community. If Bush was so good, Afghanistan would have been null and void of any Taliban/al quaida after 9/11. But alas, there was no oil to be had, only poppy so lets invade a country who had little or no terrorists (you see, dictators don't like terrorists since they are very unpredictable and tend to destabilize countries for their ill thinking, and no i am not defending Hussein). I am a veteran myself so don't get on that subject either. So thank the troops for doing what they are meant to do, I only wish they were allowed to clean up the real mess (Afghanistan) and not sent to fight some ridiculous grudge war with improper equipment and force levels.
Posted by: moji | May 14, 2007 8:06:53 PM
Another good reason to put a stop to sanctuary cities and sanctuary churches from harboring illegals who could be potential terrorists.
Posted by: Carol | May 14, 2007 8:23:58 PM
You people are nuts. They killed this guy by indescriminatly machine gunning his convoy. Then they continued down the road still firing away and killing innocent women and children. Wake up.
Posted by: Looken | May 14, 2007 9:25:49 PM
We are all in this together. United we stand divided we fall. Democrats / Republicans -- we are Americans. We should support our leader and our troops. I would love more then anyone for this war in Iraq, Afghanistan etc. to be over, but unfortunately this is something we will be fighting together, probably forever..
Posted by: USPatriot07 | May 14, 2007 9:27:01 PM
...another United States VICTORY and one more failure for both Osama his democrat allies.....
Posted by: cheesetopping69 | May 14, 2007 9:52:32 PM
everyone is jumping around like a jellybean!...
Posted by: dave or whatever | May 14, 2007 10:05:41 PM
Bush was right in Afghanistan. But as earlier stated not Iraq.
Posted by: john | May 14, 2007 10:25:47 PM
Right, and John Kennedy is the same man who should be held responsible for the deaths of 57,000+ of America's finest. Nothing Kennedy can ever do will wash his hands clean of all his bad deeds. So you guys keep supporting this guy....blah blah blah.....
Posted by: cheesetopping69 | May 14, 2007 10:41:06 PM
Does anyone else find it funny that a lib is accusing a republican of talking points?
Posted by: Bizuit | May 14, 2007 10:45:04 PM
I will say this again. We need a leader like Andrew Jackson at this time. We need to take the gloves off. This is a war. And when the next attack occurs the defeatocrats will be shoved out of office for the next 100 years.
Posted by: unseen | May 14, 2007 11:15:38 PM
Dont you think your a little late with the negative, even positive comments on this? Your very arrogance, slight of hand and ignorance of the past has put us here. Now again, 'we' have to deal with it. So sit in your comfy lounges and type away your little attitudes, while the few real Men and Women left out there take care of your little mess again. While you stir the pot, people >killdie< for you, here and abroad, Locality, Agency and Military. But, for themselves first. You just reap the benefit when it is successful. So I suggest this... shut up, get to work, pay your taxes thankfully... And if there is corruption in government, at least enough money gets spent correctly to keep you safe, even after the fact. Nobody likes mouthy people and patronizers that just start trouble. So be the opposite, and sacrifice some of your twinkie eating TV watching nose picking time to do something legal and constructive to keep this country going in the right direction, okay?
Posted by: Billyjack | May 15, 2007 12:13:51 AM
Oh, I cant believe ABC would show a dead body of a man on its website like that.... I guess they like the morbidity... You arent trying to scare me are you? Wait til I tell my friends about this. The odasity of it all... You are so selfish and sick... I cant believe you would do such a thing, you, you sick excuses for living... Ohhh....
Posted by: Billyjack | May 15, 2007 1:16:59 AM
I've read most of the comments that had to be made, few make sense or light of the real objective. Our politicians put the Taliban in power, Our politicians put Hussein in power. The real problem that no one seems to want to speak about is that our Politicians, keep putting their noses where they don't belong. How many times do we have to keep going this way. The Politicians of this GREAT COUNTRY of ours involve themselves in others issues, then when it goes wrong they send HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of MEN AND WOMEN in uniform to clean up their messes. Let's be honest with ourselves here folks, when are we going to wake up to the facts that our POLITICIANS, and I don't give a DAMN which party they belong to DO NOT, please let me emphasize this DO NOT have our citizens best interest at HEART. Their answers to their incompetiences is to get BRAVE MEN and WOMEN killed for their goals and objectives. My problem with all this is simple, OUR COUNTRY'S MEN and WOMEN are dying, I say we need to SUPPORT THEM, not the politicians. Oh just so you know so you don't think I don't understand that issue, I'M a DISABLED VETERAN, one of my family memebers is on his seventh tour to the middle east, since the first Gulf War, in which I served, along with a few more tours to the region for Southern Watch. Another family memeber was wounded this past December 2 weeks before he was to come home from an IED, so don't ever think that this doesn't effect me in any manner. I'm now currently working overseas as a civilian to help those I used to fight with, 2 YEARS going, along with thousands of former SERVICE MEMBERS by my side. We understand the SUPPORT our SERVICE MEMBERS need and we are willing to sacrifice for them, NOT OUR POLITICIANS. Yet to get to the point of the matter, Our country has failed to keep up with it's own plights on the HOMEFRONT. Why is it that we keep thinking that throwing money at a situation will fix it. Where is the GOVERNMENT'S watchful eye on our own POLITICIANS and the way they handle our money. Who's watching out for the people in the GULF of MEXICO regions that lost everything they ever known and owned. Who was watching out for them, NO ONE apparently. Why is there such waste of money in our own COUNTRY and NO ONE seems to give a DAMN about them. We sit here and discuss politicians, WHO CARES!!! What we need to be discussing is how do we take care of our own, and why is the destruction of our own COUNTRY not our first RESPONSIBILITY. I was taught from when I was a chid that CHARITY, and RESPONSIBILITY starts at HOME. When the POLITICIANS of this GREAT COUNTRY of OURS, learn how to support the PEOPLE that gave them their JOBS, correctly and in their BEST INTERESTS, then I will support them. Until then I have only sight on the real ISSUES, that is the MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN of this GREAT COUNTRY. This SHOULD be EVERYONE'S concern!! Last to highlight another blogger, I thought our COUNTRY was an ENGLISH speaking country. LEARN IT, LOVE IT, OR LEAVE IT!!! I served both as a SOLDIER, now as a civilian it's time others do the same, and I'M referring to those so called POLITICIANS that everyone seems to want to put up on PEDASTALS.
Posted by: Todd | May 15, 2007 1:20:51 AM
Remember Charlie Brown and the grownups?
"blah...blah...blah" Wake up and smell the coffee beans....we have started a world wide riot. Life is more than revenge and hate...let us not be "blah...blahs". Yeah, you can turn your cheek only so much...but you can push some things too far. Hey, remember we ain't perfect...that is for the 'guy' upstairs. Let's remember we all have a HELL of a LOT to learn from each other.
Posted by: reba | May 15, 2007 1:31:08 AM
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