Taliban Chief Hides Among Pakistan Populace

Photo: Mullah Omar

From The Washington Times:

Pakistani intelligence aids Mullah Omar's move to Karachi.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.

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My Comment: Reading stories like this one do not surprise me .... but still .... when one realizes that we give Pakistan's ISI hundreds of millions in aid each year .... it is both depressing and concerning that if these are our allies, we are definitely in trouble.

We should also be concerned about the following .... if they should conduct themselves in this manner, what else are they doing that they are not telling us. In a country that has a stockpile of nuclear weapons and nuclear materials .... this is a question that should always be on our minds when we do business with these people. But something is telling me that we do not .... and if anything .... it appers that we are in denial with what is happening in this region.