03-03-2007, 10:12 PM
<b>PAKISTAN ACTS AGAINST NEO TALIBAN AT LONG LAST</b>?<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->B.Raman
<b>A spokesman of the Neo Taliban has vehemently denied it.He has even claimed to have spoken to him. According to the spokesman, Obaidullah was in Afghanistan when he spoke to him. However, reliable police sources in Balochistan insist that the information about his arrest by the ISI is correct. According to them, his arrest was made possible by precise intelligence about his hide-out in Quetta furnished by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to the ISI. Not only that; US intelligence officials insisted on accompanying the Pakistani security officials when they raided the hide-out as they used to do in the past during raids on the hide-outs of important Al Qaeda operatives such as Abu Zubaidah in Faislabad, Punjab, in March,2002, Ramzi Binalshibh in Karachi in September,2002, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in Rawalpindi in March,2003. They say that the US agencies took this precaution to ensure that the Pakistanis did not let him escape.
5. These Baloch police sources also claim that the delay on the part of the Americans and the Pakistanis to confirm his arrest is due to the fact that the Americans want to have him flown out to the US military base in Diego Garcia for urgent interrogation by American interrogators without any Pakistanis being present.</b> If the report of his arrest is confirmed before he is flown out of the country, the Pakistani police will have to produce him before a court and thereafter the Americans will lose control of him as it happened with Omar Sheikh, the master-mind behind the kidnapping and beheading of Daniel Pearl, the US journalist in 2002. A similar thing happened last August in respect of Rashid Rauf, who was allegedly involved in the plot to blow up a number of US-bound planes. His arrest was officially announced by the Pakistani security agencies. Thereafter, the courts have assumed jurisdication over him and his being handed over to the British has been inordinately delayed.
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8. This is the second major success of the US against the Neo Taliban leaders. The first was the killing of Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Osmani,reportedly No.4 in the Shura, on December 19, 2006, in an American airstrike in southern Afghanistan. He was located while he was talking on a satellite telephone with someone in Pakistan. He was the Neo Taliban's important fund-raiser from the narcotic smugglers and others.He was the Commander of Kandahar before 9/11. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>A spokesman of the Neo Taliban has vehemently denied it.He has even claimed to have spoken to him. According to the spokesman, Obaidullah was in Afghanistan when he spoke to him. However, reliable police sources in Balochistan insist that the information about his arrest by the ISI is correct. According to them, his arrest was made possible by precise intelligence about his hide-out in Quetta furnished by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to the ISI. Not only that; US intelligence officials insisted on accompanying the Pakistani security officials when they raided the hide-out as they used to do in the past during raids on the hide-outs of important Al Qaeda operatives such as Abu Zubaidah in Faislabad, Punjab, in March,2002, Ramzi Binalshibh in Karachi in September,2002, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in Rawalpindi in March,2003. They say that the US agencies took this precaution to ensure that the Pakistanis did not let him escape.
5. These Baloch police sources also claim that the delay on the part of the Americans and the Pakistanis to confirm his arrest is due to the fact that the Americans want to have him flown out to the US military base in Diego Garcia for urgent interrogation by American interrogators without any Pakistanis being present.</b> If the report of his arrest is confirmed before he is flown out of the country, the Pakistani police will have to produce him before a court and thereafter the Americans will lose control of him as it happened with Omar Sheikh, the master-mind behind the kidnapping and beheading of Daniel Pearl, the US journalist in 2002. A similar thing happened last August in respect of Rashid Rauf, who was allegedly involved in the plot to blow up a number of US-bound planes. His arrest was officially announced by the Pakistani security agencies. Thereafter, the courts have assumed jurisdication over him and his being handed over to the British has been inordinately delayed.
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8. This is the second major success of the US against the Neo Taliban leaders. The first was the killing of Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Osmani,reportedly No.4 in the Shura, on December 19, 2006, in an American airstrike in southern Afghanistan. He was located while he was talking on a satellite telephone with someone in Pakistan. He was the Neo Taliban's important fund-raiser from the narcotic smugglers and others.He was the Commander of Kandahar before 9/11. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->