{"id":4423,"date":"2010-02-17T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2011-02-17T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T19:57:16","slug":"taliban-leaders-capture-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/02\/17\/taliban-leaders-capture-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban leader&#8217;s capture confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4424\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/Taliban-fighters-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Taliban fighters\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Pakistan has <a title=\"cofirmed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/17\/AR2010021700724_pf.html\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed <\/a>the capture of the Taliban&#8217;s top military commander, the result of a joint effort by Pakistani and U.S. intelligence agencies.\u00a0 International Relations Professor <a title=\"Joseph Wippl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/wippl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Wippl<\/a>, a 30-year CIA operations officer, said it highlights the need for such joint enterprises.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The capture of Mullah Abdu Ghani Baradar demonstrates once again that the success of operations against terrorism will occur only through the cooperation of intelligence services either bilaterally or on a multilateral basis.\u00a0 Success against terrorism on a unilateral basis is and will continue to be very limited.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Joseph Wippl, 617-353-8992, <a href=\"mailto:jwippl@bu.edu\">jwippl@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has confirmed the capture of the Taliban&#8217;s top military commander, the result of a joint effort by Pakistani and U.S. intelligence agencies.\u00a0 International Relations Professor Joseph Wippl, a 30-year CIA operations officer, said it highlights the need for such joint enterprises. &#8220;The capture of Mullah Abdu Ghani Baradar demonstrates once again that the success [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[962,2342,1865],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8127,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions\/8127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}