Fiend, er, Friend and Ally Update. "EXCLUSIVE: Taliban chief hides in Pakistan," by Eli Lake, Sara A. Carter, and Barbara Slavin for the Washington Times, November 20 (thanks to Alan):
Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and found refuge from potential U.S. attacks in the teeming Pakistani port city of Karachi with the assistance of Pakistan's intelligence service, three current and former U.S. intelligence officials said.
Mullah Omar, who hosted Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders when they plotted the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, had been residing in Quetta, where the Afghan Taliban shura -- or council -- had moved from Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Two senior U.S. intelligence officials and one former senior CIA officer told The Washington Times that Mullah Omar traveled to Karachi last month after the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He inaugurated a new senior leadership council in Karachi, a city that so far has escaped U.S. and Pakistani counterterrorism campaigns, the officials said.
The officials, two of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the topic, said Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, the ISI, helped the Taliban leaders move from Quetta, where they were exposed to attacks by unmanned U.S. drones.
The development reinforces suspicions that the ISI, which helped create the Taliban in the 1990s to expand Pakistani influence in Afghanistan, is working against U.S. interests in Afghanistan as the Obama administration prepares to send more U.S. troops to fight there.
Bruce Riedel, a CIA veteran and analyst on al Qaeda and the Taliban, confirmed that Mullah Omar had been spotted in Karachi recently.
"Some sources claim the ISI decided to move him further from the battlefield to keep him safe" from U.S. drone attacks, said Mr. Riedel, who headed the Obama administration's review of policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan last spring. "There are huge madrassas in Karachi where Mullah Omar could easily be kept."
Mr. Riedel also noted that there had been few suicide bombings in Karachi, which he attributed to the Taliban and al Qaeda not wanting to "foul their own nest."
A U.S. counterterrorism official said, "There are indications of some kind of bleed-out of Taliban types from Quetta to Karachi, but no one should assume at this point that the entire Afghan Taliban leadership has packed up its bags and headed for another Pakistani city."
A second senior intelligence officer who specializes in monitoring al Qaeda said U.S. intelligence had confirmed Mullah Omar's move through both electronic and human sources as well as intelligence from an unnamed allied service....
Repeat after me:
Pakistan is not our friend.
Pakistan is not our friend.
Pakistan is not our friend.
I've been trying to tell people that for years.
I've been trying to tell people that for years.
are we really surprised at porkistani/muslim duplicity? it is standard islamic policy. Infidels better wake up and stop relying on muslims for anything.
True imams, mullahs or whatever the latest, fashionable word is to describe an "islamic teacher" ALWAYS have some disfigurement -- i.e. blown out eye, blown off arms, blown off legs, etc.
They are the true disciples of their never-maimed, always sated master, muhammad.
Meanwhile...at the OIC....I mean, the UN....
www.cnsnews.com/news/article/57461
And the US doles out billions of dollars to Pakistan. And restrains India, so Pakistan doesnot get 'distracted' from war on terror !
Probably been hiding Osama too...
Sorry to say this to our American friends and fellow infidels, US foreign policy, right from John Foster Dulles to Hillary Clinton has been misguided by the belief that muslims can be friends. Nothing can be farther from the truth, as you see time and again, yet refuse to learn at the governmental level. In my job (details of which I cannot reveal), I have confessions from captured terrorists who laugh at US government naivete. They tell me that the billions given by US end up as follows:
1) High living by Porkistan army officers
2) Support for terror outfits
3) Small amounts to capture some low-level terrorists
Thus, the hard working US taxpayer is funding his/her own demise. Think about it friends, and knock some sense into your Congress and Senate.
If we know were Omar is.. KILL HIM. Kill him now. Enough pussy-footing around! And stop funding the ISI if they're the ones who helped him flee.
Pakistan cannot be trusted, even when its troops are killing supposed Taliban or whatever. Cleverly, it is playing a double game--for profit and for its government to remain in power and be the "friend and ally" of the U.S., to keep India from becoming that.
"Fiend, er, Friend and Ally Update."
Yeah. Drop the r. For reality.
"Fiend, er, Friend and Ally Update."
Yeah. Drop the r. For reality.
Obama's Bin Laden hit (the afghan war strategy) is still beating the bushes.
Kufr may purchase many things from Mahoundians but they can never purchase loyalty and friendship...
'Foreign aid', not called for in the Constitution, is another redistribution of wealth scam...US taxpayers bucks spread across the Islamic countryside...And Rasool Obama would spread even more...Americans are working harder and longer for less, in order to support lavish lifestyles for despots, Islamic and otherwise...While the various States are going broke, Rasool Obama see's fit to lavish billions on people who deserve not one penny...The jizya did not start with Rasool, but it can end with him...2010/2012...sooner...
What is even more daunting is the that lack of our educational system's instruction in the history of jihad. It was only recently that I read in any detail the HIndu Holocaust which occurred (and is still occurring) during the Muslim invasions of the Indian sub-continent.
If ever a subject needed a documentary movie, the attempted conquest of India by the Islamic Empire is one such subject.
India could have been a friend to the US long ago. Instead it chose "non-alignment", a statement of indifference. What kind of ally would India ever be?
"India could have been a friend to the US long ago. Instead it chose "non-alignment", a statement of indifference. What kind of ally would India ever be?"
True. Indian leaders post-1947 had a 'socialist' bent, and capitalism-communism being the major conflict at the time, stayed away from US.
But in the present war with jihadi forces, India and Israel are indispensable allies of the west.