Pakistanis Tell of Motive in Taliban Leader’s Arrest
23rd August 2010
Now, seven months later, Pakistani officials are telling a very different story. They say they set out to capture Mr. Baradar, and used the C.I.A. to help them do it, because they wanted to shut down secret peace talks that Mr. Baradar had been conducting with the Afghan government that excluded Pakistan, the Taliban’s longtime backer.
What, they would lie to us? I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.