{"id":667392,"date":"2010-02-17T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T21:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76864"},"modified":"2010-02-17T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T21:12:25","slug":"gibbs-confirms-baradar-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/667392","title":{"rendered":"Gibbs Confirms Baradar Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_WHITE_HOUSE_TALIBAN?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">White House press briefing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Wednesday that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was arrested earlier this month in a joint operation by CIA and Pakistani security forces, &#8220;is a big success for our mutual efforts in the region.&#8221;<span id=\"more-76864\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He praised Pakistan for the capture, saying it is a sign of increased cooperation with the U.S. in the terror fight. Gibbs confirmed Baradar is being interrogated but wouldn&#8217;t divulge the results.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It must have taken Herculean restraint not to call out Republicans for failing to capture such a senior Taliban official when they were in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At today&#8217;s White House press briefing: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Wednesday that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was arrested earlier this month in a joint operation by CIA and Pakistani security forces, &#8220;is a big success for our mutual efforts in the region.&#8221; He praised Pakistan for the capture, saying it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NCo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}