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| Afghanistan |
| Afghans nab Mullah Omar's son-in-law... |
| 2002-12-03 |
| Now Mullah Omar's never gonna get his lawn mower back... Afghanistan has recently captured a close relative of the ousted Taliban leader but faces a long struggle to root out remnants of the al Qaeda network, an adviser to President Bush said on Monday. Zalmay Khalilzad, special presidential envoy for Afghanistan, told Reuters that forces had captured the son-in-law of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who was toppled last year. That could be significant, assuming he's in the family business... Mullah Omar appears to have survived the fighting and a top al Qaeda official said in October that he was still alive. "We don't know for example where Bin Laden is. I don't think he is in Afghanistan probably. Mullah Omar is; it is assumed that he is in Afghanistan," Khalilzad said. When he's not weekending in Quetta or Peshawar... "There are some figures that are in Afghanistan, but I don't think that Afghanistan is any longer the headquarters of al Qaeda." Al-Qaeda headquarters moved to Karachi sometime during early summer. Prior to that, it was probably in Fazl's guesthouse. I think that when Ramzi was snagged and they almost got Khalid, they beat it to Yemen. At each step of the way, their local infrastructure's been torn down around them, which is a point the guys who say we've been losing the war have missed. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |