'Taliban Chief Hides in Pakistan', The Washington Times, 20 November 2009
EXCERPT: "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 US attacks in the teeming Pakistani port city of Karachi with the assistance of Pakistan's intelligence service, three current and former US 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. . . He inaugurated a new senior leadership council in Karachi, a city that so far has escaped US and Pakistani counterterrorism campaigns, the officials said."
Read the full story.
Related articles:
Pak denies Taliban chief is in Karachi, Press Trust of India, 20 November 2009
ISI-Taliban link exposed [video], India Today, 20 November 2009
US drone strike kills eight in Pakistan: Officials, AFP, 20 November 2009
Seven more "TTP men" arrested in Karachi, DAWN, 13 November 2009
French prosecutor points out Pakistan links to jihadis [blog], The Long War Journal, 5 November 2009
US threatens airstrikes in Pakistan, Times Online, 27 September 2009
Related posts:
The Taliban Quetta shura: Fact or fiction?, 18 November 2009
CIA: ISI worth the money, 16 November 2009
Pakistan's new generation of terrorists, 5 November 2009
Pakistan spies stoke violence: Afghan advisor, 16 October 2009
