Fox News has confirmed a breaking news story coming from Newsweek Magazine; another high-ranking leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Mullah Salam, has been captured by a joint U.S.- Pakistani intelligence operation in Pakistan. There is no evidence this capture resulted from intelligence gleaned from Mullah Baradar, the Taliban’s # 2 operative who was apprehended in Pakistan just days ago.
“The capture of an Afghan Taliban ‘shadow governor’ is positive, good news” a U.S. official tells Fox’s Mike Emanuel. It’s not as big as getting Baradar, he said, but “whenever the Pakistanis arrest somebody, that is a plus”.