Musa Qala Update: Two Taliban Leaders Captured

At Holger Awakens, we put this story up on Friday about the key attempt at taking the last real Taliban center held, Musa Qala, in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. Well, the NATO and Afghan siege of that town has gone just as planned and the breaking news is that two Taliban leaders have been captured. Great , great news!

Here is the Breaking News from Reuters.

Taliban leaders seized in assault on Afghan town

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan and NATO-led forces have captured two senior Taliban leaders during an offensive to retake the insurgents' most important stronghold in Afghanistan, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
Musa Qala, in the southern province of Helmand, is symbolic for both sides in the conflict in Afghanistan as the only sizeable Afghan town controlled by the Taliban.
Forty-eight hours after the operation began, there was less fighting on Sunday as troops resupplied and positioned themselves for the assault on the town.
"If you think of it like a house, the house is surrounded, the Afghan army is waiting outside. We are in the process of kicking the door in, then the Afghan army is going through it," said British army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Richard Eaton.

"During the operation, two Taliban commanders named Mullah Mateen Akhond and Mullah Rahim Akhond have been captured by joint forces," the Afghan Defense Ministry said in a statement. Mullah Rahim Akhond is the Taliban-appointed governor of Helmand, while Mullah Mateen Akhond is the Taliban district governor of Musa Qala.