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Afghan Taliban chief now in Karachi says US
Houston News.Net
Friday 20th November, 2009 (ANI)
Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar has shifted his base from Quetta to Karachi with the help of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence, the Washington Times reports.
According to the newspaper, two senior US intelligence officials and a former top CIA officer have confirmed that the one-eyed Taliban leader moved to Karachi last month after Ramzan.
It said he inaugurated a new senior leadership council in Karachi, a city that so far has escaped US and Pakistani counterterrorism campaigns.
Officials, on condition of anonymity, said Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, the ISI, helped the Taliban leaders move from Quetta, where they were exposed to attacks by unmanned US drones.
It is believed the reason, al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders are relocating to Karachi is because they believe US drones will not strike the densely populated urban area.
Former CIA official and an expert on Al-Qaeda and Taliban, Bruce Riedel also confirmed that Omar has been spotted in Karachi.
“Some sources claim that the ISI decided to move him further from the battlefield to keep him safe.There are huge madrassas in Karachi where Mullah Omar could easily be kept,” said Riedel.
Riedel, who had worked on the Obama administration’s AFPAK policy, pointed out that there has been few suicide bombings in the port city, which he said was primarily due to the fact that the Taliban and Al Qaeda didn’t wanted to “foul their own nest.”
Meanwhile, Pakistan has denied reports about Omar’s presence in Karachi.
Nadeem Kiani, a spokesman for the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, said the US has not provided any credible information about Taliban leaders movement to Islamabad.
“We have no evidence of his presence in Pakistan.If anybody in the U.S. government knows of any Quetta shura or Karachi shura, why don’t they share that intelligence with Pakistan so we can take care of the issue ourselves? We have not been made aware of any presence of Mullah Omar in the region,” Kiani said.
Referring to reports that ISI had facilitated Omar’s movement from Quetta to Karachi, he said such accusations were aimed at maligning the agency’s image.
“The ISI and Pakistani military have suffered a lot of losses fighting the terrorists and people who are making these accusations have their own agendas,” Kiani said.  Email this story to a friend
Comments on this story
Anonymous
11-20-09, 07:02 AM |
Afghan Taliban chief moves across the border
Maybe there are a few rotten eggs in ISI.. and they are serving the Taliban master of death rather than their own people..
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Zibgnew Brizhnezky
11-20-09, 08:12 AM |
Oh, well you see.....
we run the Pakistani ISI. That’s how we put the Taliban in power. Radical muslims don’t like to work for Americans, so we hire contractors, you know, muslims. Send them out to fight whoever the hell we tell to. I wrote the book on it. Check me out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh1GwDUx1Fc&feature=related
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anza
11-20-09, 09:21 AM |
Afghan Taliban chief now in Karachi says US
so they know where they are ,,,instead of talking why don’t they nab them.
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anza
11-20-09, 09:28 AM |
To Anonymous
There are bad eggs in all the intelligence agencies mossad ,raw,m16.kgb.cia which only interest is to upset the world peace.
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another bad egg
11-20-09, 11:26 AM |
Afghan Taliban chief now in Karachi says US
So maybe someone will sneek up on Omar’s blind side and shoot him in his head.
Taliban and Al Qaeda didnât wanted to âfoul their own nest.â
wherever this man’s foot touches the earth that place will stink for eternity.
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lol
11-20-09, 11:58 AM |
if the usa really wants these people dead they should’ve got them long time ago..come on..with all the tech they’ve got..how come it is the same ol story everyday..they just want the land not the people..those said figures are just the cause.
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Deserted Paki. ISI
11-20-09, 01:31 PM |
Pak. now admits Omar is under Paki.ISI
What are you waiting for ...you coward
Americans. Go and dump nuclear bombs into
the gaands of PakisPunjabis.
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Anonymous
11-20-09, 03:53 PM |
Who need a enemy if you have alreday within.
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Anonymous
11-20-09, 05:16 PM |
whats a big deal
he and others are not important.people come n go.even if he is in washington or islamabad he dont matter.there would b thousands of fucking mullas if american policy makers keep on licking shrewd indians.i dont understand why the world dont look at kashmir? i assure u that the only secure n credible victory in the whole region especially afghanistan lies in adherence to UN resolutions on kashmir.
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Anonymous
11-20-09, 09:31 PM |
After all the leader of the militant Mullah Omar is afraid shitless and do not want to lose his dear life.What is virgin female waiting afer life.The chicken shit Mullah Omar and his co hort are running like a bunch of chicken , afraid to die.They encourage other people to be a human bomb but they are afraid to die.They will get them one way or another,I donot how but the will get them when time come.....
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Mike P.
11-20-09, 11:21 PM |
Omar in Pakistan
Doesn’t the US have a price on his head?
One day one of his
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Anonymous
11-21-09, 08:15 AM |
whats a big deal
You bhosari ke PakisPunjabi teri gaand marega.
Forget Kashmir. This great piece is an integral part of India. It will always remain.
You stinking Pakis. just disappear into the
gaands of you Saudis and never return...
Musharraf has already fled with billions of
your looted gold bars.
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HinduThrust
11-21-09, 09:52 AM |
Some more US tax payer's money for pak(SHIT)stan??
US must throw more money on pak(SHIT)stan to nab omar. . . . ha ha ha . . . . When will wisdom dawn on US authorities who are wasting people’s hard earned monies on a useless & a rogue state like pakSHITstan??
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