Spokesman says Mullah Omar being sheltered by Pakistani intel
Allahpundit
Yeah, but who’d believe a filthy terrorist’s filthy mouthpiece?
In this case? Me, that’s who.
Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is alive and well and living in Pakistan under the protection of the Pakistan intelligence agency, according to the captured spokesman for the Taliban, Mohammad Hanif.
Hanif was captured in Afghanistan yesterday, and today the Afghan government released video footage of him in which he claims to know the location of Omar.
“He is living in Quetta,” says Hanif, “and the ISI [Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency] is protecting him.”
They’ve probably got him under “house arrest,” so that he can’t get to Musharraf — and we can’t get to him.
According to secret U.S. military documents purchased by ABC News from an Afghan in front of Bagram air base, the spokesman’s telling the truth about his location.
Update: ...
One-Eyed Mullah in the Land of the Blind?
Jules Crittenden
The great thing about captured Taliban spokesman Mohammad Hanif claiming that Mullah Omar is in Quetta, Pakistan, under the protection of Pakistan’s ISI, is that it is entirely believeable. And yet, Hanif in his phone calls to the Associated Press was often a bald-faced liar. It’s his job. He is, after all, a propagandist. So he could be covering for Omar and trying to make trouble for the ISI, drive the wedge between the US and Pakistan a little deeper. Or not. Karzai has also said recently he thinks the one-eyed mullah is there. ...
