Pakistan Taliban leader seized by US military --- The US snatched a senior Pakistani Taliban leader out of the hands of Afghan intelligence agents who were in the middle of a delicate attempt to recruit him, according to the Afghan government. --- Afghan officials claimed he had been seized as he drove in a government convoy in eastern Afghanistan in a move that threatens to further inflame the strained relationship between Washington and Kabul. --- "The Americans forcibly removed him and took him to Bagram," a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai told the Washington Post, referring to a US base in Afghanistan. - Telegraph