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Afghanistan/South Asia
Mulla Omar aide escapes Multan raid
2005-05-23
A close aide to Osama Bin Laden and Mulla Omar escaped before police raided his house in Nagina Colony, Multan, on Sunday, intelligence sources told Daily Times.
"Hello? Abdur Rehman? Lissen, dis is Mahmoud the Weasel! Scram! [Click!]"
Sources said intelligence agencies traced Abdur Rehman Wazir's satellite phone call to Multan and raided his house, but Wazir fled while three activists of a banned militant organisation were arrested. "Wazir helped Mulla Omar escape from Kandahar on a motorbike after the fall of the Taliban," sources added. After fleeing from Afghanistan, Wazir hid in Waziristan and formed a group with Al Qaeda activists Abu Haris and Abu Khalid, sources said, adding that they were killed in military operations in Wazirstan after which Wazir also left the place and settled in southern Punjab.
"Da boyz is dead, boss!"
"Okay. I'll go to Punjab and get some more!"
"Abu Farraj Al Libbi, the third most wanted Al Qaeda activist, who was arrested a few weeks ago, also gave information about Wazir," sources said, adding that Wazir's arrest could have been big, but unfortunately he escaped. They said, "It is quite possible that Wazir is in touch with Bin Laden or Ayman al Zawahiri or even Mulla Omar." The search for Wazir is continuing throughout southern Punjab.
Posted by:Fred

#7  On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat


Well, she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat


Well, morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat

--Ali Stewart "year of the cat"
Posted by: Mac Suirtain   2005-05-23 14:10  

#6  Before the phone hits the receiver
You're halfway to the door
The voice said 'get out while you can,
There's just ten minutes, nothing more'
Time only for the essentials
Better gather them and run
The false name inside the passport,
The gold bars and the gun
And once again they've come out of the past
And though your mind is cool your heart is beating fast
You've been through it all before
Each time you wish a little more that you could ask

"What do you want from me?
What do you need from me?
There's no rest for the running man
Why can't you let him be?'

--Al Stewart, "Running Man"
Posted by: Mike   2005-05-23 10:30  

#5  "Abu Farraj Al Libbi, the third most wanted Al Qaeda activist, who was arrested a few weeks ago, also gave information about Wazir,"

Singing muslim watch?
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2005-05-23 09:20  

#4  He's no mullah, he's been de-turbaned.
Posted by: anonymous2u   2005-05-23 02:02  

#3  Wazir hid in Waziristan>>>Spock: "Logical".


Abu Haris...Black Panther from Oakland?


Mulla Omar..I wonder if he lost his glass eye in the hurry up?
Posted by: Mini Mullah   2005-05-23 01:11  

#2  I'll do a song about this and call it The Grand Wazir...
Posted by: Frank Zappa   2005-05-23 00:32  

#1  "We were this close!"
Posted by: .Abu Maxhmoud al-Notsosmart   2005-05-23 00:06  

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