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US Captures Taliban
Leader... but the real story is that Pakistan seems to be
more on board, finally.
The seizure of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar delivers the
most substantial scalp yet in the eight-year war against the
Afghan Taliban.
RIGHT: Happier times.
Baradar poses with some weapons.
As the movement’s military chief, he
is second only to the one-eyed leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
He is believed to be responsible for appointing
commanders and a shadow network of governors and is
particularly involved in western and southern Afghanistan,
where up to 15,000 troops are now conducting Operation
Moshtarak.
But the real significance of his capture
in Karachi does not lie in its immediate effect on the
battlefields of Helmand.
Taliban commanders such as
those resisting the offensive in Nad-i-Ali and Marjah have a
high level of autonomy.
Mullah Barader’s arrest may
undermine morale and disrupt links with the leadership, but
senior members of the Quetta Shura, such as Mullah Dadullah
in 2007, have been killed before and replaced with only
temporary disruption.
The biggest significance of the
joint raid by US and Pakistani agents lies in what it may
say about the changing position of Pakistan’s powerful ISI
military intelligence service.
London and Washington
have for years been frustrated that the ISI has refused to
target the leadership of a movement it once groomed as a
counterweight to Indian influence in Afghanistan.
MORE:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7250321/Mullah-Abdul-Ghani-Baradars-captured-as-Pakistans-ISI-change-tack-analysis.html
Windows Phone 7 series
Microsoft
has unveiled a new version of its mobile phone operating
system that it hopes will allow it to replicate its desktop
dominance on the next generation of smartphones.
Windows Phone 7 is a complete departure from previous
Windows Mobile operating systems, focusing more closely on
social-networking capabilities, real-time information, and
organising contacts and data in to single “hubs” to make it
easier to keep in touch.
“I’m proud to introduce
Windows Phone 7 Series, the next generation of Windows
Phones,” said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, at
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
“In a crowded
market, filled with phones that look the same and do the
same things, I challenged the team to deliver a different
kind of mobile experience. Windows Phone 7 marks a turning
point toward phones that truly relfect the speed of people’s
lives and their need to connect to other people and all
kinds of seamless experiences.”
Joe Belfiore, vice
president of Windows Phone, said it was time to stop
thinking about mobile phones like PCs.
“A phone is
not a PC, it’s a smaller, more intimate device,” he said.
“Too many phones are made to look like PCs. We wanted to
come up with a user design that was different, that moved
beyond the metaphor of the PC.”
Windows Phone devices
will feature three buttons - Start, Search and Back buttons
- and be built around six different “hubs”, based on the
services that people use most, accessed through the Live
Tiles home screen.
(Continue this story:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/7243934/MWC-Microsoft-unveils-Windows-Phone-to-rival-iPhone.html)
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They had ample warning, I
think
The subject line of the report on case 86-112-0910-0185
is "ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING OF SETH BISHOP."
But a close
reading of this 23-year-old document from the district
attorney of Norfolk County in Massachusetts does little to
dispel suspicions that Amy Bishop in fact deliberately
killed her younger brother in a fit of anger.
As the
whole country knows, Amy Bishop went on to become a
professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and now
faces the death penalty after being charged with the fatal
shooting of three colleagues in a fit of anger.
Incredibly, none of the Bishops was questioned in any detail
in the immediate aftermath, when a detective is most likely
to get the truth.
As for his 20-year-old daughter,
the father "had a disagreement with Amy before he left about
a comment she had made, and that she had gone to her room
prior to his departing."
By her account, Amy decided
at this time "that it would be a good idea if she learned
how to load the shotgun in the house." She suggested she had
been concerned about her safety due to a break-in the year
before.
Read more of the bizarre here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/02/16/2010-02-16_ala_profs_accident_foretold_horror.html
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