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| Karzai gave Perv intel on Mullah Omar's location |
| 2006-02-28 |
| Afghanistan has solid evidence about militant training camps in Pakistan and the presence there of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohamed Omar, a senior Afghan security official said yesterday. President Hamid Karzai visited neighbouring Pakistan this month and urged it to take action against the Taliban, Al Qaeda and other militants who he said launched attacks from sanctuaries there. During the visit, his delegation handed over confessions of 13 Pakistani terrorists arrested in Afghanistan and details of Taliban leaders in Pakistan, including phone numbers, locations and descriptions, the Afghan security official said. “It is currently crystal clear ... that terrorists are using Pakistan soil for planning attacks, for masterminding attacks on our soil,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “It is not helping the long-term relations between the two countries if our people continue to be hurt by terrorists who have safe haven in the Pakistani soil.” A spokeswoman for Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry told a news briefing that Pakistani intelligence were investigating a list of under 40 suspected Taliban members Kabul suspects are running the insurgency from Pakistani soil. “Separately (from the list), some information was provided about Mullah Omar’s whereabouts,” spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said. “Some of that information has already been checked and it’s not correct.” She said Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden did not figure on the list handed over by the Afghan government and rejected speculation that he was hiding in Pakistan. “There is no evidence that Osama bin Laden is here, was here or where he is. If we knew where he was he would have been caught,” Aslam said. A body of opinion in intelligence circles, however, suggests bin Laden is probably living on the Pakistan side of the border with Afghanistan, either in the Pashtun tribal areas or in the northern mountains of North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Pressure on President Pervez Musharraf to act against the Taliban leadership comes just ahead of US President George W Bush’s planned visit to Pakistan later this week. US commanders in Afghanistan have in the past voiced frustration with Pakistan’s failure to act more strongly to stem Taliban infiltration, although Pakistan’s security forces have been praised for running Al Qaeda members to ground. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #10 Old Pat. How about, stop the $$$? gromgoru, work with the guy. At least he left out the nukes this time. Old Patriot, I tend to agree with you. Pakistan has done little more than pay lip service to the global war on terror, while remaining one of its principal suppliers of terrorist cannon fodder. It's time to start yanking their chain. Our massive earthquake aid package was all for naught (predictably) and the country continues to inculcate its youth (see today's article on the children's demonstration), with hatred for all things American. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain by a show of force. It's all they will ever understand anyway. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-02-28 19:30 |
| #9 Old Pat. How about, stop the $$$? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-02-28 15:33 |
| #8 Simple solution: bomb Quetta to rubble. Tell Perv that if the ISI doesn't bring in Omar's and bin Laden's heads in 30 days, the rest of Pakland gets the same treatment. Start flying some of the hypersonic aircraft the US still has over pakland at 3:00 AM at an altitude that will create a sonic boom. Bring a dozen B-1s in over Karachi at 500 feet, on full AB. Have a couple of US carrier strike groups pull a full-deck fly-by over Baluchistan. Run one of the "NASA" SR-71s at 45,000 feet over the NWFP from north to south, at about Mach 1.5. Let the entire nation of pakland know they exist only at our discretion, and we're getting very, very unhappy with them. THEN drop the hint that Halliburton has REALLY invented an earthquake machine. After the previous, they'll believe it. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-02-28 15:26 |
| #7 Â trouble is, not all ISI are jihadi-oriented Mebbe so, but enough of them are perfidious lying b@stards to where losing several dozen of them off the top could only be an improvement. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-02-28 12:42 |
| #6 trouble is, not all ISI are jihadi-oriented |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-02-28 12:31 |
| #5 We need to start whacking prominent ISI membership until they toe the line. If this means reducing their roll call to a single office clerk with a bewildered expression, so be it. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-02-28 11:29 |
| #4 He wants the camps closed and only the Pak ISI can do that. They operate them. Pakistan has also used its position and support to the Taliban to establish within Afghanistan a series of training camps for Kashmiri terrorists. ISI personnel are present, in mufti, to conduct the training. This arrangement allowed Pakistan “plausible denial” that it is promoting insurgency in Kashmir. Testimony to the Congress by Vincent Cannistraro, Former Chief of Counterterrorism Operations and Analysis, CIA, now Security Advisor to the Vatican. |
| Posted by: john 2006-02-28 10:35 |
| #3 Why is he telling Perv? I don't see why the Afgans can't infiltrate the camps themselves and do the job. Treat Pakiwakiland like the Paks treat Afganistan. |
| Posted by: Spot 2006-02-28 10:03 |
| #2 Or rather.... Memo from Perv to operators of ISI safehouse - "Time to move" |
| Posted by: john 2006-02-28 08:53 |
| #1 Time to move |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-02-28 06:25 |