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Taleban chief Mullah Omar likely in south Afghanistan (AP) 22 January 2007 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Taleban leader Mullah Omar is likely based in southern Afghanistan and leading the resurgent Islamic militia from there, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said Monday. A spokeswoman for the ministry said that Omar's exact whereabouts remain unknown. But generally the likely scenario is that he is in Kandahar from where he is marshaling his troops,' spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said at a news conference. The southern province of Kandahar has traditionally been a stronghold of the Taleban militia. Aslam's comments follow claims by Afghan officials that a captured spokesman for the Taleban militia told interrogators that Omar was living in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta and was protected by Pakistan's ISI intelligence service. The purported Taleban spokesman, Mohammad Hanif, was arrested last week in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan and Western military officials have repeatedly complained that Taleban leaders have found refuge in Pakistan and use it as a base from which to launch attacks against Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government. Taleban fighters launched a record number of attacks against Afghan and international coalition forces last year. Some 4,000 people have died in insurgency-related violence, according to a tally by The Associated Press. Pakistan vehemently denies backing the militants. To say that the Afghan insurgency is being sustained by a few people who cross from here is very simplistic and naive, if not done with some other agenda of shifting the blame on Pakistan for failures inside Afghanistan,' Alsam said. Pakistan was a key supporter of the Taleban militia until it switched sides to become a US anti-terrorism ally following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
