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Afghanistan
Taliban sez Blinky not dead
2011-05-23
KABUL (BNO NEWS) -- The Pakistani and Afghan Taliban on Monday rejected media reports that its spiritual leader, Mullah Omar, was killed in Pakistan late last week.
What a dilemma: either we get to cheer having caught another one, or we get to enjoy the idea that he is jumping at every sound and shadow, wondering if this time the Predator missile/SEAL team has him in its/their sights. Being a terrorist isn't just fun and games, as Mr. bin Laden discovered recently.
Tolo News, a private television channel in Afghanistan, reported on early Monday that Omar was shot dead in Pakistan on Saturday. Several other media organizations, including China's Xinhua news agency, later also cited sources saying Omar was recently killed.

But Afghan and Pakistani officials were not able to confirm or deny the reports. "Just like you, we heard it on a local TV. I don't know how much truth is there in this," a spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai said. One Afghan general told BNO News that he heard the media reports as well. "I hope it's right [that Omar is dead]," he said, but noting he had no information to confirm or deny it.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was also unable to confirm or deny the reports. "[We have] no reporting on our end. We've just heard the same media reports and are looking into them," an ISAF spokesperson said.

Meanwhile, spokesmen for the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban have denied the reports. "He is safe and sound," an Afghan Taliban spokesman told the Afghan Islamic Press news agency.
Yes, and how many resources must y'all devote to keeping him that way?
Posted by:tu3031

#10  Just like the Haqqanis, new digs courtesy of the ISI. Check Rawalpindi.
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685   2011-05-23 20:04  

#9  How is going dark going to protect him from the bin Laden treatment? You can't get much darker than the bin Ladens; not unless you want to move to Brooklyn, change your name to Willy bin Loman & start selling hosiery.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2011-05-23 19:47  

#8  Blinky's gone dark to avoid the Binny treatment.

It amazes me that these guys who preach martyrdom and jihad seem so allergic to being killed themselves...whatzamatteryou don't wanna be a martyr?
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2011-05-23 18:13  

#7  We wuz watchin' him and watchin' him, and suddenly - he wuz gone! Jus' like magic!

We jus' never knew where he wuz. He's gone, tho.

- ISI
Posted by: Bobby   2011-05-23 13:14  

#6  "Mullah, we need your SEAL of approval on this latest fatwa... Aw, shit, he's hyperventilating again."
Posted by: Matt   2011-05-23 12:53  

#5  Update
An official from Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) said today that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar had "disappeared" several days ago from hideout in Quetta, after Tolo News reported yesterday that an anonymous NDS source said Omar had been killed while in transit between Quetta and North Waziristan (AFP, Reuters, Tolo). The Taliban denied the claim, telling reporters that Omar was "alive and well" and in Afghanistan (Reuters, NYT).

According to a report from the German magazine Der Spiegel, Germany is mediating direct talks between the United States and the Taliban on German soil (AFP, Der Spiegel - German). The report indicates that three meetings have been held so far, the first in Qatar and the subsequent two in Germany. And Afghanistan and Pakistan are reportedly in talks to set up a "high-level joint commission" to deal with direct negotiations with the Taliban (ET).
Posted by: tipper   2011-05-23 11:40  

#4  According to Miracle Max, he's only "mostly dead"...
Posted by: mojo   2011-05-23 11:19  

#3  I doubt he's dead, he's a slippery bastard.
Posted by: Griting Smith6978   2011-05-23 10:55  

#2  ...Elvis.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-05-23 07:56  

#1  He's visiting with Fidel?
Posted by: gr(o)mgoru   2011-05-23 07:13  

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