Daily Mail on Sunday:
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.
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Rahman and Mohammed slipped over the border from Pakistan earlier this year after Coalition forces killed or detained scores of Taliban brigade commanders in a series of ground raids and air strikes in Afghanistan.
This had left the Taliban without any high-level leadership as it prepared for its traditional summer offensive.
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The decapitation strikes have pushed al Qaeda and the Taliban into exposing some of their high command. The attack also shows the value of the night raids which Karzai is trying to ban. It does appear that the al Qaeda operatives have learned one lesson from the bin Laden raid--resistance is not only futile, but deadly.
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