Taliban's number two goon is nailed in Pakistan. Any guesses how?

This story has been plastered all over the MSM, blogosphere, you name it. Great snag too, do not get me wrong or take this the wrong way. The main reason I did not post any news on this capture was as stated above plus I like to wait a bit to see what information starts filtering down. Gateway Pundit has some good questions and possible answers on how this was pulled off. I think the mullah in the White House was forced to put the squeeze on Pakistan as they had not caught anyone worthwhile in a couple of years. The India angle is one that I had thought about. Plus India and Israel are getting pretty close as allies especially since Obama and his pals slammed the door on any major military aid to Israel over a year ago. That has not stopped Obama from arming up his so called Mulsim friends. That is another story but imagine if India suddenly got a big boost in aid being closely aligned with Israel, and India was 'given' the go ahead to operate more freely in the troubled regions that India and Pakistan have gone to war over. One more before closing my say; is this a move that will show Pakistan actually doing more or was this a one time shot? Stay tuned.
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Abdul Ghani Baradar

How could Pakistani intel be pressured into rolling over on a guy this big? What could we have offered them — or threatened them with? One possibility is that we followed the Hitchens plan and threatened to bring Pakistan’s archenemy, India, into Afghanistan if they didn’t start playing ball. Another possibility, per CBS, is that we promised draconian cuts in military aid if they didn’t at least help us catch a few big fish.
Any other possibilities? A clue , maybe, from Time:

The commander’s arrest would mark a significant departure from Pakistan’s policy toward the Taliban. Usually, Islamabad officials deny to the Americans that they know where the top commanders are hiding while letting them move freely among the Pakistani cities of Quetta, Peshawar and Karachi as well as the country’s tribal areas, where the jihadi fighters launch their attacks and suicide bombings against U.S.-led forces inside neighboring Afghanistan. Pakistani officials privately say they regard the Taliban in Afghanistan as a strategic asset in their regional rivalry with India, which supports President Hamid Karzai in Kabul…
Some Taliban contacts suggest that Pakistan may have had no option but to cooperate this time, since the CIA may have tracked down Baradar in Karachi on its own and pressured Pakistani spy agency the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to help pick him up. A senior Pakistani official told TIME that the CIA “pinpointed the general area” and that Pakistani intelligence on the ground made the arrest in the night between Feb. 10 and 11. Baradar was arrested in the slum town of Baldia, just outside Karachi, which is teeming with migrant Afghans and Pashtuns. The Pakistani official insisted that “this shows that Washington and Islamabad’s priorities are starting to match up.” U.S. officials have complained that past efforts to tip off the ISI to the locations of Taliban commanders yielded no action. Until Baradar was seized, no significant Taliban fighter had been arrested in two years in Pakistan. “All of the major Taliban commanders are in Pakistan,” a source close to the Taliban told TIME – an allegation that Islamabad loudly and persistently denies. Continue reading


Gateway Pundit

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/16/how-exactly-did-the-u-s-catch-the-talibans-number-two/